Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your FGD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert FGD to another file type
To convert FGD data files to another format, you need Valve Hammer Editor or other Developer software.
Convert a file to FGD
To convert other file formats to the "Game Mapping File" file type, you need software like Valve Hammer Editor or a similar tool.
About FGD files
The .FGD (Forge Game Data) file is primarily a plain text file used by the Valve Hammer Editor to define map entities for Source and GoldSrc engine games. It can also act as an Assembly 3 data file for FreeCAD, a Digital Raster Graphic metadata file for ArcGIS Desktop, or a Microsoft Jet Database file. As a game mapping file, .FGD requires specialized modding software like Hammer to interpret correctly. As a CAD file, it is useless to users who lack the specific FreeCAD Assembly3 workbench plugin. These files are rigid, domain-specific, and not natively supported by standard viewers or web browsers. For web use or external parsing, convert Valve .FGD files to TXT or JSON to read the entity logic outside the mapping environment. For FreeCAD files, you might extract the data to XML or CSV for external analysis. Drop your file here to analyze and convert it securely right in your browser.
Convert.Guru analyzes your FGD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert FGD file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use Valve Hammer Editor or similar software from the "Game Entity Definition" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to FGD, try Valve Hammer Editor or another comparable tool in the "Game Entity Definition" category.
The FGD 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 FGD converter.