Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your FEZ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert FEZ to another file type
To convert FEZ projects to another format, you need Rocscience RS2 or other Data software.
Convert a file to FEZ
To convert other file formats to the "FEA Project Archive" file type, you need software like Rocscience RS2 or a similar tool.
About FEZ files
The .FEZ file extension is primarily used to store Finite Element Analysis (FEA) projects. These specialized files are essentially compressed data archives - often referred to as FEA Zip files - that hold complex 3D model geometries, load cases, material properties, and computational mesh parameters. Structural engineers and physicists rely on this format to save simulation environments for steel connection designs, fluid dynamics, and geotechnical analysis. The most prominent software generating these files include IDEA StatiCa for steel detailing, Rocscience RS2 (formerly Phase2) for 2D geotechnical finite element analysis, and FEATool Multiphysics, a simulation toolbox designed for the MATLAB environment. While these platforms are incredibly powerful, their proprietary formats create immense workflow bottlenecks. .FEZ files suffer from severe vendor lock-in. Opening a single structural connection or soil slope stability design typically requires an active, expensive software subscription or a specific MATLAB installation. This makes sharing designs with external architects, fabricators, or clients nearly impossible unless the files are pre-processed. Because of these limitations, users frequently need to convert .FEZ files into universal formats. The best conversion targets include PDF for static engineering reports, DWG or DXF for CAD integration, and XML to extract the raw text configurations. Since the .FEZ format uses internal ZIP compression, standard document converters completely fail to understand the mathematical data inside the container. Opening or converting a .FEZ file without the original engineering suite is incredibly difficult. Most third-party tools cannot interpret the specialized meshing algorithms or embedded p2i and p2m auxiliary files used by software like RS2. However, convert.guru offers a pragmatic workaround. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Because our engine analyzes the underlying file structure, we can often bypass the proprietary wrapper to extract embedded XML configurations, underlying text data, or base ZIP contents, helping you retrieve critical information without paying for a specialized software license.
Convert.Guru analyzes your FEZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert FEZ file to , you can use Rocscience RS2 or similar software from the "Finite Element Analysis Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to FEZ, try Rocscience RS2 or another comparable tool in the "Finite Element Analysis Archive" category.
The FEZ 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 FEZ converter.