EXY Converter

Extract text from Structural add-on files (EXY)


Drop or upload your .EXY file
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How to extract text from your EXY file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your EXY file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert EXY to another file type

To convert EXY Add-ons to another format, you need ETABS or other Executable software.

Convert a file to EXY

To convert other file formats to the "ETABS Add-on Module" file type, you need software like ETABS or a similar tool.


About EXY files

The .EXY file is a compiled binary file, primarily used as a Structural Analysis Add-on Module for ETABS by Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI). In most cases, an .EXY file is simply a standard Windows EXE file that has been renamed. This is often done to bypass email security filters or to act as a specific plugin for structural engineering software. Executable files are notoriously difficult to share because modern email providers block them automatically. They are platform-dependent, running exclusively on Windows, and pose severe security risks if downloaded from untrusted sources. You cannot easily view their contents on macOS or mobile devices. Furthermore, you cannot convert an .EXY file into a PDF or JPG because it contains compiled machine code, not human-readable document data. If you need to run the file, you generally must rename the extension back to EXE. Because this is a closed, compiled format, standard online converters fail to process it. Our analysis can detect the underlying executable structure and extract embedded resources like icons, text strings, or compressed data if the embedded format is supported.

Convert.Guru analyzes your EXY file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert EXY file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use ETABS or similar software from the "Structural Analysis Add-on Module" 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 EXY, try ETABS or another comparable tool in the "Structural Analysis Add-on Module" category.



The EXY 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 EXY converter.