Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DSB file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert DSB to another file type
To convert DSB Designs to another format, you need LaserCut5.3 or other Cad software.
Convert a file to DSB
To convert other file formats to the "Embroidery & Laser File" file type, you need software like LaserCut5.3 or a similar tool.
About DSB files
The .DSB file extension is heavily fragmented and serves multiple unrelated software systems. Most commonly, it is an embroidery design file used by Tajima machines or a laser cutting project file created by software like LaserCut5.3. In other contexts, it operates as a ZIP-compressed building simulation archive for DesignBuilder, or even as proprietary audio files for video games like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion where it masks a standard Windows Media Audio format. Users need to convert .DSB files because they are tightly locked to specific, often expensive, industry software. If a vendor sends you a .DSB laser cutting file and you do not own a LaserCut dongle, the file is functionally useless. Similarly, Tajima .DSB files cannot be natively opened by web browsers or standard image viewers. You cannot preview the stitch counts or vector paths without specialized tools. If you have an embroidery or vector-based .DSB file, the best conversion targets are DST or EXP for other embroidery machines, or SVG and DXF for general vector editing. If your file is an archive or audio file, renaming or extracting it to ZIP or WMA is usually the solution. Because this format is proprietary and shares its extension across entirely different industries, standard online converters often fail to process it. They do not know if they are dealing with vector paths, stitch coordinates, or ZIP archives.
Convert.Guru analyzes your DSB file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert DSB file to OBJ, FBX, DAE, 3DS, MAX, BLEND, MA, MB, C4D, STL, PLY or WRL, you can use LaserCut5.3 or similar software from the "Embroidery & Laser Design Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DWG, DAE, X3D, IGES, WRL, JT, SKP, 3DS, 3DM, OBJ, STEP or FBX files to DSB, try LaserCut5.3 or another comparable tool in the "Embroidery & Laser Design Storage" category.
The DSB 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 DSB converter.