LIZD Converter

Extract text from Live Interior 3D documents (LIZD)


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

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

Convert LIZD to another file type

To convert LIZD documents to another format, you need Live Home 3D or other 3D software.

Convert a file to LIZD

To convert other file formats to the "Compressed Scene Document" file type, you need software like Live Home 3D or a similar tool.


About LIZD files

The .LIZD file is a compressed document format created by Live Interior 3D (currently marketed as Live Home 3D), a popular home design application developed by BeLight Software. This format acts as a closed container that stores 2D floor plans, 3D room models, custom textures, furniture objects, and lighting settings within a single archive structure. Because the .LIZD format is strictly proprietary, it creates serious vendor lock-in for users trying to view or share their interior designs without an active software license. These files can easily exceed 100MB in size and are entirely unsupported by standard web browsers or generic 3D viewers. To collaborate with others or share your work, you are typically forced to export the project directly from the original application into universal formats like OBJ, DAE (Collada), or FBX for 3D modeling pipelines, or into PDF and JPG for simple 2D floor plan distribution. Converting to standard targets ensures long-term accessibility, although you may lose specific procedural materials or proprietary lighting setups native to the BeLight rendering engine. The closed nature of this format makes it notoriously difficult to open or convert using generic web tools, as only the original software holds the algorithms required to render the complex 3D scene data correctly. Standard online converters simply fail to parse the proprietary internal mesh structures. If our analysis detects standard underlying images or embedded XML data, partial extraction or viewing may still be possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert LIZD file to , you can use Live Home 3D or similar software from the "3D Interior Design Project" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to LIZD, try Live Home 3D or another comparable tool in the "3D Interior Design Project" category.



The LIZD 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 LIZD converter.