ICW Converter

Extract text from Electrochemical data and drawings (ICW)


Drop or upload your .ICW file
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How to extract text from your ICW file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ICW file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert ICW to another file type

To convert ICW Data and drawings to another format, you need IviumSoft or other Data software.

Convert a file to ICW

To convert other file formats to the "Scientific Research Data" file type, you need software like IviumSoft or a similar tool.


About ICW files

The .ICW file extension primarily stores raw electrochemical experiment data, specifically Cyclic Voltammetry data generated by potentiostats from CH Instruments or Ivium Technologies. In a secondary capacity, it acts as an interCAD Windows Drawing file used by interCAD. To open the scientific variant, researchers must use IviumSoft or the CH Instruments control software. The main disadvantage of the .ICW format is extreme vendor lock-in. Scientific .ICW files trap raw voltage and current readings inside a closed binary ecosystem. This means you cannot natively load the data into Excel, Python, or MATLAB without first accessing a workstation licensed with the specific vendor's software. The CAD variant suffers from similar isolation, remaining completely inaccessible to industry-standard programs like AutoCAD. Researchers desperately need to convert .ICW files to CSV or TXT formats to perform independent data analysis and plot graphs. CAD users need to export to DXF or PDF to share blueprints with clients. Because these file variants use undocumented, proprietary structures, standard online converters fail to parse them. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the complex floating-point arrays or vector coordinates. However, you can drag and drop your file into convert.guru to see what it is and convert it if supported. Our tool will inspect the binary header to identify the exact sub-type of .ICW file, extract plaintext metadata, and facilitate a conversion if an embedded, open format is detected.

Convert.Guru analyzes your ICW file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert ICW file to , you can use IviumSoft or similar software from the "Electrochemical Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to ICW, try IviumSoft or another comparable tool in the "Electrochemical Data Storage" category.



The ICW 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 ICW converter.