Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your AAM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert AAM to another file type
To convert AAM patterns to another format, you need Gerber AccuMark or other Cad software.
Convert a file to AAM
To convert other file formats to the "Garment Design File" file type, you need software like Gerber AccuMark or a similar tool.
About AAM files
The .AAM file extension primarily represents an Apparel CAD pattern utilized by Gerber Technology for their AccuMark software. A secondary, older use is for Authorware Map Files associated with the discontinued Adobe Authorware platform. As a highly proprietary CAD format specifically built for the garment and textile industry, the .AAM extension is extremely difficult to handle outside of its native ecosystem. The main disadvantage is that you cannot preview these files in standard web browsers or generic image viewers. Purchasing a commercial license for Gerber AccuMark requires a massive enterprise investment, leaving freelance designers and standard users locked out of the files they receive. Because of this closed architecture, standard online converters fail to process the format natively. They lack the specialized textile libraries necessary to render the sewing lines and pattern data. If you need to share these patterns, the optimal target conversion formats are DXF (specifically the AAMA standard), PDF, or SVG. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible on convert.guru. We can inspect the internal binary data, extract embedded text, and bypass some of these proprietary limits to help you access the underlying vector coordinates.
Convert.Guru analyzes your AAM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert AAM file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Gerber AccuMark or similar software from the "Apparel CAD Pattern Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to AAM, try Gerber AccuMark or another comparable tool in the "Apparel CAD Pattern Storage" category.
The AAM Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our AAM converter.