How to convert your DSI file
- Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DSI file.
- You'll see a preview.
- Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert DSI to another file type
The converter easily converts your DSI file to various formats - free and online. No Blender or extra software needed.
- DSI to OBJ
- DSI to FBX
- DSI to DAE
- DSI to 3DS
- DSI to MAX
- DSI to BLEND
- DSI to MA
- DSI to MB
- DSI to C4D
- DSI to STL
- DSI to PLY
- DSI to WRL
Convert a file to DSI
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Page Layout formats to DSI with high quality output.
- DWG to DSI
- DAE to DSI
- X3D to DSI
- IGES to DSI
- WRL to DSI
- JT to DSI
- SKP to DSI
- 3DS to DSI
- 3DM to DSI
- OBJ to DSI
- STEP to DSI
- FBX to DSI
About DSI files
The .DSI extension is a notorious "chameleon" format, causing significant confusion because it is shared by three completely unrelated industries: telecommunications, electrical engineering, and 3D modeling.
- DESI Label Templates: The most common variety (approx. 23%) is a template file used by DESI Labeling Software to print paper inserts for office telephone buttons. These files often use an internal SQL structure to store extension names and numbers. The friction here is high: the software is legacy, proprietary, and often missing from modern PCs, leaving users with a file they cannot print.
- Siemens Harness Data: In engineering (approx. 23%), a .DSI file acts as a data bridge for Siemens Capital (formerly VeSys) or HarnessXC. It contains electrical wiring data used to bridge design schematics with manufacturing outputs. These are strictly proprietary CAD data files.
- DAZ Studio Layer Sets: 3D artists use .DSI files in DAZ 3D Studio to store Double-Precision Spectral Image data or layered sets. These are high-fidelity texture or lighting files that standard image viewers cannot render.
Conversion Advice:
- For Labels (DESI): Users typically want to print these. Converting to PDF preserves the layout for printing, while converting to CSV or XLSX allows you to recover the phone numbers and names for use in modern tools like Microsoft Excel.
- For Engineering (Siemens): These cannot be easily edited without the original Capital suite. The best workflow is converting the viewing output to PDF for documentation or archiving.
- For 3D (DAZ): To use these textures in other software like Blender or Adobe Photoshop, they must be converted to standard raster formats like PNG, TIFF, or EXR.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your DSI file.
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The DSI 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 DSI converter.