Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CHF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert CHF to another file type
To convert CHF presets to another format, you need Star Citizen or other Game software.
Convert a file to CHF
To convert other file formats to the "Character Preset & CAD File" file type, you need software like Star Citizen or a similar tool.
About CHF files
The .CHF file extension is highly fragmented and used by several completely unrelated software applications. Most commonly, it functions as a character customization preset file for the space simulation game Star Citizen. However, it is also heavily utilized in industrial manufacturing as a sheet metal CAD/CAM file for Metalix cncKad, and as a cutting plotter file for Graphtec Cutting Master 4. Additionally, legacy systems use it for Software FX Chart FX graphs or Metavante Customer History Files. This fragmentation makes the format incredibly confusing for end-users. The main disadvantage of .CHF files is their strictly proprietary nature. A Star Citizen preset is useless outside the game engine, and a cncKad file requires an expensive industrial software license to open, view, or edit. They are completely unsupported by standard web browsers or generic image viewers. Users working in CAD often need to convert .CHF to universally accepted formats like DXF or SVG for sharing with clients or loading into different CNC machines. Game presets typically cannot be converted into anything else, as they are specific coordinate maps for 3D meshes. Because these formats are closed and proprietary, standard online converters universally fail to process them. Often, 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 CHF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert CHF file to US, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use Star Citizen or similar software from the "Game Settings & CAD Designs" 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 CHF, try Star Citizen or another comparable tool in the "Game Settings & CAD Designs" category.
The CHF 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 CHF converter.