Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ARXML file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ARXML to another file type
To convert ARXML AUTOSAR files to another format, you need Vector DaVinci or other Developer software.
Convert a file to ARXML
To convert other file formats to the "AUTOSAR XML File" file type, you need software like Vector DaVinci or a similar tool.
About ARXML files
.ARXML files are AUTOSAR XML documents used in the automotive industry to define system descriptions, Electronic Control Unit (ECU) configurations, and software components. They are primarily managed by specialized enterprise engineering tools from companies like Vector Informatik GmbH, such as DaVinci Configurator or CANoe. The main disadvantage of the .ARXML format is its extreme complexity and strict adherence to specific AUTOSAR metamodels. These files are heavily nested, frequently massive in size (often crashing standard text editors), and require expensive proprietary software licenses to open or edit correctly. Users frequently need to convert .ARXML to standard XML, CSV, or TXT to extract diagnostic signals or analyze data outside of proprietary automotive environments. Converting to a flat format like CSV is useful for spreadsheet analysis, but you will lose the hierarchical relationships inherent to the XML structure. Because the format is specialized and constantly updated with new AUTOSAR schema versions, standard online converters often fail to process or validate the proprietary tags. This makes the file exceptionally difficult to open or convert without the original engineering software. Our analysis engine bypasses the need for enterprise licenses to inspect the file, read the internal text, and safely extract the supported underlying XML content.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ARXML file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ARXML file to DBC, XML, CSV, JSON, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use Vector DaVinci or similar software from the "Automotive System Description" 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 ARXML, try Vector DaVinci or another comparable tool in the "Automotive System Description" category.
The ARXML 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 ARXML converter.