BRV Converter

Extract text from Brick Rigs vehicle files (BRV)


Drop or upload your .BRV file

How to extract text from your BRV file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BRV file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert BRV to another file type

To convert BRV vehicles to another format, you need Brick Rigs or other Game software.

Convert a file to BRV

To convert other file formats to the "Game Save File" file type, you need software like Brick Rigs or a similar tool.


About BRV files

The .brv file is a custom vehicle blueprint used exclusively by the physics sandbox game Brick Rigs. It acts as a save container that stores the exact 3D coordinates, color palettes, physical weight properties, and logic connections of individual bricks used to build custom vehicles, planes, or structures within the game.

These files are natively opened and generated by Brick Rigs, which was developed by Lukas Rustemeyer. Users rely on these files to save their progress and share their creations via the Steam Workshop.

The primary disadvantage of the .brv format is that it is highly proprietary and closed off to the rest of the 3D design ecosystem. Files often become unreadable if the game's core physics engine undergoes a major update. Furthermore, standard 3D modeling tools like Blender or AutoCAD cannot open or parse these files, creating a frustrating silo for users who want to 3D print or render their vehicles externally.

Converting a .brv file to a standard 3D mesh like OBJ or STL is practically impossible without relying on unofficial community-built parser scripts. You cannot natively export these files out of the game engine into universal formats without losing all dynamic logic and moving parts.

This file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert because standard online converters fail to comprehend the specific brick-grid logic unique to the game engine. Usually, only the original game can properly read or load the vehicle data. If our analysis detects a readable underlying structure like JSON or plain text coordinates, partial viewing or data extraction may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your BRV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted BRM and BVR files.


FAQ

If you want to convert BRV file to , you can use Brick Rigs or similar software from the "Game Vehicle Blueprint Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to BRV, try Brick Rigs or another comparable tool in the "Game Vehicle Blueprint Storage" category.



The BRV 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 BRV converter.