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.jt

Jupiter Tesselation, a 3D CAD data exchange format developed by Siemens PLM for lightweight visualization

Dedicated renderer

Format facts

MIME type
application/x-jt
Apple UTI
custom
Stock Quick Look
no stock preview
Planned approach (census)
special-renderer
Icon hint
generic-icon
Prevalence
common

Renderer note (from the census)

parse JT header for LOD and bounding box

Census note

Automotive engineers use JT for lightweight 3D; native macOS shows nothing for these binary files.

Gotchas: Siemens CAD