NCD Converter

Convert Design and drill files (NCD) online for free


Drop or upload your .NCD file

How to convert your NCD file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your NCD file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert NCD to another file type

The converter easily converts your NCD Design files to various formats - free and online. No Nero CoverDesigner or or other Page Layout software needed.

  • NCD to JPG
  • NCD to IMG
  • NCD to RAW
  • NCD to 85I
  • NCD to TARGA
  • NCD to CH
  • NCD to CT
  • NCD to MIFF
  • NCD to PS3
  • NCD to TIM
  • NCD to PI2
  • NCD to PGM

Convert a file to NCD

To convert other file formats to the "CD/DVD Label Design File" file type, you need software like Nero CoverDesigner or a similar tool.


About NCD files

The .NCD file extension primarily represents Nero CoverDesigner files used to create and print custom CD, DVD, and Blu-ray labels. These files are proprietary to Nero AG and often utilize XML or zlib compression structures. Because physical optical media is heavily outdated, keeping design assets locked in this legacy format is a major disadvantage. The format requires a specific, older version of the Nero CoverDesigner application to open, making the contents completely inaccessible to web browsers or standard image editors. Additionally, the .NCD extension is heavily fragmented in the real world. It serves as a PCB NC Drill File used by Mentor Graphics PADS for CNC machine routing, a BMW ECU coding data file containing Motorola S-Record hex dumps for car programming via BMW E-Sys, and historical market data for NinjaTrader. This extreme fragmentation causes massive confusion when users try to open an unknown .NCD file. For sharing and modern printing of disc designs, convert your .NCD files to PDF or JPG. For electronic design (EDA), export drill files to standard DRL or TXT. Drag and drop your file to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your NCD file.

Users also converted BMP, NRG, XML, JPG, CRDOWNLOAD, ACSM, CUE and UDF files.


FAQ

If you want to convert NCD file to ISO, DMG, VHD, VMDK, VDI, HDD, QCOW, QCOW2 or VBOX, you can use Nero CoverDesigner or similar software from the "CD/DVD Cover Design Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert VFD, DMG, OVA, IMA, VBOX, ADF, PVS, VHD, OVF, ISO, DSK or IMG files to NCD, try Nero CoverDesigner or another comparable tool in the "CD/DVD Cover Design Storage" category.



The NCD 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 NCD converter.