Glossary

FBX

FBX stands for Filmbox. It's a proprietary 3D exchange format owned by Autodesk and one of the most widely used formats for moving models, rigs and animations between professional tools. FBX is excellent for production pipelines but is not web-ready: browsers cannot display it directly, so for Web AR an FBX file is converted to GLB or USDZ first.

Quick Facts

Stands for: Filmbox
Owned by: Autodesk (proprietary)
File extension: .fbx
Strength: exchange between editing tools, carries animation
Web: not directly displayable, convert to GLB or USDZ

FBX is the lingua franca of professional 3D production. Game studios, VFX houses and CAD-to-render pipelines pass FBX files around because they carry geometry, materials, rigs and animation in one container.

What FBX is not is a web format. It is proprietary and not built for streaming to a browser, so the path to Web AR always runs through a conversion: typically FBX to GLB for web and Android, plus FBX to USDZ for iOS. The usual tool for that step is Blender, which imports FBX and exports clean glTF.

Once you have the GLB and USDZ, PausAR Viewer handles the WordPress side: upload them to the Elementor widget and the model is live with AR, no coding.