Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HSD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert HSD to another file type
To convert HSD drawings to another format, you need Hipaint or other Data software.
Convert a file to HSD
To convert other file formats to the "Animation Project Archive" file type, you need software like Hipaint or a similar tool.
About HSD files
The .HSD file format is primarily used as a drawing and animation project file by the Hipaint mobile application, or as a Harmony Scene Design file. Secondary uses include ship resistance data files for Bentley Systems Maxsurf and smart home database files for HomeSeer Technologies. These project and data files are highly proprietary. A Hipaint .HSD file stores canvas metadata, uncompressed drawing layers, animation frames, and custom brush strokes. Because it is a closed format, sharing the raw file is practically impossible. Your clients or colleagues cannot open the file without installing the exact same application on their device. Furthermore, the format is completely unsupported by standard web browsers, generic image viewers, or standard desktop software. To share artwork, users must convert the .HSD file to universal formats like PNG or JPG for flat images, or MP4 for animations. For the Maxsurf or HomeSeer variants, users typically need to export the data to CSV or standard database formats. Standard online converters fail to process .HSD files because they lack the specific rendering or physics engines required to interpret the proprietary application logic. Fortunately, there is a practical workaround. Because the Hipaint .HSD file is internally structured as a ZIP archive, and the HomeSeer variant relies on SQL, our system can often inspect the internal file headers. We can extract embedded images, text logs, or raw XML data even when a 1-to-1 conversion is impossible, saving you from a frustrating software lock-in.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HSD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert HSD file to JPG, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use Hipaint or similar software from the "Drawing and Animation Project" 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 HSD, try Hipaint or another comparable tool in the "Drawing and Animation Project" category.
The HSD 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 HSD converter.