Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BLEND1 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert BLEND1 to another file type
To convert BLEND1 backups to another format, you need Blender or other Backup software.
Convert a file to BLEND1
To convert other file formats to the "3D Project Backup" file type, you need software like Blender or a similar tool.
About BLEND1 files
The .blend1 file is an automatic backup file generated by Blender, a highly popular open-source 3D creation suite. When you save a project, Blender automatically renames the previously saved file by appending a '1' to the extension, creating a .blend1 file. This acts as a vital fallback to prevent data loss if the main project file becomes corrupted or is accidentally overwritten. You can open these files directly using Blender. The primary disadvantage of a .blend1 file is that it is fundamentally unrecognized as a standard 3D asset by game engines, web viewers, or competing 3D modeling software like Autodesk Maya. It is a highly specific, proprietary container that often holds massive amounts of unoptimized vertex data, complex node trees, and embedded high-resolution textures. Users frequently need to convert these files to standard interchange formats to collaborate with others or publish their 3D models into external engines. The easiest conversion method is simply renaming the file extension to blend to restore the working project. For exporting the actual 3D geometry to other software, recommended target formats include OBJ for static meshes or FBX for rigged and animated models. Keep in mind that specific Blender node setups, modifier stacks, and complex procedural materials are almost always lost or baked destructively during export to these universal formats. This file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert outside of its native environment because it essentially dumps Blender's internal memory state directly into a file, which is often further compressed with GZIP. Standard online converters fail instantly because they lack the highly specialized parsing engine required to interpret Blender's proprietary data blocks. Because of this, usually only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BLEND1 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert BLEND1 file to BLEND, BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z or RAR, you can use Blender or similar software from the "3D Project Backup Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SNAPSHOT, OLD, IMG, RESTORE, ISO, COPY, VMDK, TMP, VHD, BAK, ARCHIVE or BACKUP files to BLEND1, try Blender or another comparable tool in the "3D Project Backup Storage" category.
The BLEND1 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 BLEND1 converter.