Answers.Body: <p>.3DS is a 3D image file format, a rendering of what you designed in LeoCAD.
  All information necessary to recreate your build (i.e. what bricks to use) will be stripped from it. I suppose that theoretically this information can be recreated for small builds, but for medium-sized to large builds, this will simply be infeasible.
  Hence I think it quite unlikely that it's possible to import .3ds back into LeoCAD.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Yes. How its possible? I have small model.
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Answers.Text: I believe it isn't, it's only "theoretically" possible. Unlikely the developers of LeoCad will have gone through the trouble of implementing this.
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Body: <p>I designed a model in <a href="https://www.leocad.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LDraw/LeoCAD</a> and exported it as <code>.3ds</code> file. I thought that I can import <code>.3ds</code> file to edit it later. Now I want to edit the model but I don't see any option to import the <code>.3ds</code> file in LeoCAD. I tried my best to open it but useless.<br>
  How can I open a <code>.3ds</code> file in LeoCAD?</p>
  
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Title: Importing 3ds file in ldraw (LeoCAD)
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ThreadText: # Importing 3ds file in ldraw (LeoCAD)
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-10-18)
  
  I designed a model in [LDraw/LeoCAD](https://www.leocad.org/) and exported it as `.3ds` file. I thought that I can import `.3ds` file to edit it later. Now I want to edit the model but I don't see any option to import the `.3ds` file in LeoCAD. I tried my best to open it but useless.  
  How can I open a `.3ds` file in LeoCAD?
  
  **Tags:** cad, ldraw
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-10-18. Score: 2
  
  .3DS is a 3D image file format, a rendering of what you designed in LeoCAD.
  All information necessary to recreate your build (i.e. what bricks to use) will be stripped from it. I suppose that theoretically this information can be recreated for small builds, but for medium-sized to large builds, this will simply be infeasible.
  Hence I think it quite unlikely that it's possible to import .3ds back into LeoCAD.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Yes. How its possible? I have small model.  
  > **username_1**: I believe it isn't, it's only "theoretically" possible. Unlikely the developers of LeoCad will have gone through the trouble of implementing this.  
  
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