Extract text from Feature library files (FXL)
To convert FXL Feature libraries to another format, you need Trimble Business Center or other GIS software.
To convert other file formats to the "Geospatial Feature Mapping Data" file type, you need software like Trimble Business Center or a similar tool.
The .fxl file is primarily a Feature Code Library file utilized in professional surveying and geospatial analysis. It contains structural XML data that dictates how raw field survey codes translate into linework, symbols, and attributes within Trimble Business Center and Trimble Access. Alternatively, .fxl files operate as a Facial Expression Library for CryENGINE or a Language File for FaceFX in game development.
These files are highly specialized. The Trimble .fxl format is essentially a proprietary dictionary for survey data. Accessing and applying these rules requires an expensive license for heavy-duty geospatial software. Without Trimble applications, field crews and engineers hit roadblocks when trying to review feature codes, audit survey mappings, or share data with external CAD and GIS teams. The complex, nested XML schema makes direct usage in web browsers or spreadsheet software messy and error-prone.
When converting .fxl files, your most pragmatic targets are XML, CSV, or TXT. Extracting the raw text allows you to review the specific feature definitions, though you will lose the automated CAD mapping behavior that the Trimble ecosystem provides. Because .fxl files contain highly specific configuration schemas mapping complex surveying hierarchies, standard online converters inevitably fail to process them. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the structured geospatial data. Despite this limitation, convert.guru serves as a powerful diagnostic tool. Just drag and drop your file to see what it is, inspect the raw text or internal structure, and convert it if our analysis detects a supported underlying format.
Convert.Guru analyzes your FXL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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If you want to convert FXL file to OBJ, FBX, DAE, 3DS, MAX, BLEND, MA, MB, C4D, STL, PLY or WRL, you can use Trimble Business Center or similar software from the "Feature Code Library Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DWG, DAE, X3D, IGES, WRL, JT, SKP, 3DS, 3DM, OBJ, STEP or FBX files to FXL, try Trimble Business Center or another comparable tool in the "Feature Code Library Storage" category.
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 FXL converter.