What is a .PLA file?
.PLA is a file in the 3D / CAD (more) category. Analyser identifies it and reads the metadata in its header, right in your browser.
- Did you know
- PLA is a Graphisoft ArchiCAD archive, bundling a building project together with all the library parts it uses into one portable file.
- Because it embeds the linked libraries, a .pla opens correctly on another machine where the loose .pln project might be missing its objects.
- ArchiCAD, first released in 1987, was one of the earliest BIM tools, modelling a building as real walls, slabs and roofs rather than plain lines.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify more 3D, CAD and scene files: Google Draco compressed meshes, Gaussian splats (KSplat), Universal 3D, Dassault 3DXML, DirectX .x models, Qubicle voxels, Wings3D, Graphisoft ArchiCAD BIM projects (PLN/PLA, from their "ROF FDB" header), Autodesk Revit (RVT/RFA and templates, build version from BasicFileInfo), Siemens Solid Edge, Navisworks, legacy CATIA V4, terrestrial-scanner point clouds (FARO/Trimble) and legacy binary Visio (.vsd).
- Depth of analysis
- .PLA is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .PLA file
- Drag a .PLA file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.