Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your F06 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert F06 to another file type
To convert your F06 file to another format, you need MSC Nastran or other Data software.
Convert a file to F06
To convert other file formats to the "Simulation Output" file type, you need software like MSC Nastran or a similar tool.
About F06 files
The .F06 file is the primary text-based output generated by Nastran solvers, including MSC Nastran and Siemens Simcenter Nastran. It serves as a comprehensive log of the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) process, containing the input file echo, grid point singularities, resource usage statistics, and the calculated results (displacements, stresses, forces). While human-readable, these files are notorious for their massive size - often reaching gigabytes - which causes standard text editors like Notepad to crash. They are also formatted with legacy Fortran-style pagination (headers, page breaks, and fixed 132-column widths), making them difficult to parse programmatically or view comfortably on modern screens without specialized post-processing tools. To make this data usable, engineers frequently convert .F06 files to PDF for easier report archiving, TXT to strip page headers for parsing scripts, or CSV to analyze specific result tables in spreadsheet software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your F06 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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FAQ
If you want to convert F06 file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use MSC Nastran or similar software from the "FEA Simulation Results Log" 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 F06, try MSC Nastran or another comparable tool in the "FEA Simulation Results Log" category.
The F06 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 F06 converter.