Extract text from Color visibility views (COLOR)
To convert COLOR Visibility views to another format, you need Cadence Allegro or other Settings software.
To convert other file formats to the "CAD Visibility Configuration" file type, you need software like Cadence Allegro or a similar tool.
The .color file format is primarily used by Cadence Allegro PCB Designer to store Color Visibility Views. In complex printed circuit board (PCB) designs, engineers handle dozens of physical and logical layout layers. A .color file acts as a configuration snapshot, saving exactly which classes, subclasses, and board layers are visible or hidden.
Why do users struggle to process this file? Because it is a proprietary, non-standard settings format strictly bound to the Cadence environment. You cannot simply open it on a standard PC to see the circuit layout. Because it lacks standard media or document data, typical online file converters completely fail to process it.
Directly converting a settings file to an image or document outside of the native software is impossible. However, the data inside is often structured text. The most practical conversion targets are TXT, XML, or CSV to make the layer visibility rules readable for other team members without CAD software.
This is where our tool helps.
Convert.Guru analyzes your COLOR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted PNG, KEYBOARD, PROFILES, SCHEMAS, HEX, RGB, CMYK and RGBA files.
If you want to convert COLOR file to HEX, RGB, CMYK or RGBA, you can use Cadence Allegro or similar software from the "PCB Layer Visibility Settings" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to COLOR, try Cadence Allegro or another comparable tool in the "PCB Layer Visibility Settings" 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 COLOR converter.