Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your NET file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert NET to another file type
To convert NET network files to another format, you need EPANET or other Data software.
Convert a file to NET
To convert other file formats to the "Network Simulation Model" file type, you need software like EPANET or a similar tool.
About NET files
The .net file extension is most commonly associated with EPANET, a software application developed by the U.S. EPA used to model water distribution piping systems. These files store complex network topologies, including data on pipes, nodes, pumps, and valves. However, the .net extension is heavily overloaded and used by many different applications. It is also utilized by KiCad for electronic circuit netlists, Pajek for network analysis data, and GNS3 for network topology projects. Depending on the file's exact origin, you might need EPANET, a Borland Paradox database environment, or even just Google Chrome, which sometimes saves web page archives using this extension. Because so many disparate programs use the .net extension, identifying the actual content is a major challenge. A file might be a proprietary binary simulation model, a plain text netlist, or simply a misnamed internet download actually containing a ZIP archive, PDF document, or JPG image. Users frequently struggle to open these files because Windows defaults to associating them with the Microsoft .NET Framework, which is almost always incorrect for user data files. To make the data usable or readable, you must convert the file based on its true underlying format. For EPANET files, converting to INP (a text-based input format) or CSV is best for editing, extracting data, or migrating to other GIS tools. If it is a circuit netlist, it is best kept as plain text (TXT). If it is a renamed download, the file simply needs its original extension restored. We will identify its true signature and help you extract the data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your NET file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert NET file to JPG, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use EPANET or similar software from the "Water Distribution Network Model" 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 NET, try EPANET or another comparable tool in the "Water Distribution Network Model" category.
The NET 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 NET converter.