---
name: "vedo-convert"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-vedo"
version: "2025.5.3-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vedo-convert"
---

# vedo-convert(1)

convert vtk file formats

## NAME

vedo-convert - convert vtk file formats

## SYNOPSIS

**vedo-convert** \[**-h** \| **--help**\] \[**-to**\] \[*files* \[*files ...*\]\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **vedo-convert** command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**vedo-convert** is a program that converts between VTK file formats

## OPTIONS

*files*, *files*

Input files to be converted

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-n**, **--normalize**

  normalize target size.

- **-c**, **--clean**

  remove coincident points.

- **-m**, **--mirror**

  mirror along the x-axis.

- **-b**, **--binary**

  whether output is binary or not.

- **-t**, **--triangle**

  Convert polygons to triangles.

- **-to**

  target format \[vtk\]. Allowed targets: \['vtk', 'vtp', 'vtu', 'vts', 'ply', 'stl', 'byu', 'xml'\]

## SEE ALSO

[**vedo**(1)](/vedo/1.md)

The programs are documented fully at **https://vedo.embl.es/**.

## AUTHOR

**Drew Parsons** \<dparsons@debian.org\>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2019 Drew Parsons\

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the MIT License.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the MIT License can be found in /usr/share/doc/python3-vedo/copyright.