Extract text from Fritzing projects (FZZ)
To convert FZZ projects to another format, you need Fritzing or other Cad software.
To convert other file formats to the "Electronic Design Automation File" file type, you need software like Fritzing or a similar tool.
The .FZZ file format is a Fritzing Shareable Project File used to store electronics schematics, breadboard layouts, and PCB (Printed Circuit Board) designs. It is the default, bundled format for Fritzing, an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics design accessible. You can read more about the software's history on the Fritzing Wikipedia page.
While highly useful for sharing complete designs without missing dependencies, the .FZZ format has significant limitations. It is heavily proprietary to the Fritzing ecosystem. Because it relies on Fritzing's specific part libraries and visual rendering engine, you cannot open a .FZZ file directly in standard CAD programs like AutoCAD, web browsers, or standard image viewers. If you attempt to open it without the original software, you will see nothing but an error.
Users typically need to convert .FZZ files to standard vector or raster formats like PDF, SVG, or JPG to share PCB layouts with manufacturers or to present schematics to team members who do not have Fritzing installed. Under the hood, the .FZZ file is actually a standard ZIP archive containing an XML-based FZ project file and custom component files (FZPZ). Converting or renaming the file to ZIP allows users to extract these raw assets.
Because this is a specialized EDA (Electronic Design Automation) container, it is notoriously difficult to open or convert with standard online tools. Often, only the original Fritzing software can properly read, render, or export the visual schematic data accurately. Since our analysis engine detects the underlying ZIP compression, we can often help you extract the embedded files or text data even when full visual rendering is unsupported.
Convert.Guru analyzes your FZZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted FZ, FZPZ, ZIP, FZP, INO, SVG, FZBZ, JPG, PDF, ENC, RAR, PNG and LAY6 files.
If you want to convert FZZ file to PDF, FZPZ, DWG, DXF, DGN, RVT, RFA, SKP, 3DM, STEP, IGES or SAT, you can use Fritzing or similar software from the "Electronics project schematic sharing" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SLDASM, DGN, PRT, IAM, X_B, CATPRODUCT, SLDPRT, RVT, ASM, DWG, CATPART or DXF files to FZZ, try Fritzing or another comparable tool in the "Electronics project schematic sharing" 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 FZZ converter.