Extract text from BT files
To convert your BT file to another format, you need SweetScape 010 Editor or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Binary Template Script" file type, you need software like SweetScape 010 Editor or a similar tool.
The .bt extension is a classic example of a filename collision, shared by several distinct technical workflows. Most commonly, it is a Binary Template script used by the SweetScape 010 Editor. These are essential C-style text scripts that teach the hex editor how to parse and map binary data structures. While powerful for reverse engineering, they are practically useless outside the 010 ecosystem unless converted to standard C or H header files for broader development use.
However, in robotics and 3D mapping, a .bt file refers to a Binary Octree generated by the OctoMap library. These files store 3D occupancy grids (compact representations of space) but are notoriously difficult to visualize without installing the specific Octovis viewer or ROS (Robot Operating System) packages. Users often need to convert these binary maps into standard 3D formats like OBJ, PLY, or VOX to import them into Blender or MeshLab.
Less frequently, you might encounter a .bt file as a project file for BluffTitler, a 3D titling tool, or as Binary Terrain data from the Virtual Terrain Project (VTP). For BluffTitler users, the goal is usually rendering the project to MP4 video. For VTP users, the raw binary elevation data is often locked away until converted to standard geospatial formats like GeoTIFF or DEM.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted !BT, BTW, TORRENT, WEBP, PDF, RAR, TXT, JPG, ENC, BBG, DLL and BST files.
If you want to convert BT file to DLL, BST, SHP, KML, KMZ, GPX, GEOJSON, TOPOJSON, TIF, TIFF, ECW or SID, you can use SweetScape 010 Editor or similar software from the "Hex Editor Parsing Script" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert LAZ, KMZ, DTM, CSV, DEM, PRJ, LAS, GPX, DSM, SHP, DBF or KML files to BT, try SweetScape 010 Editor or another comparable tool in the "Hex Editor Parsing Script" category.
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 BT converter.