PCP Converter

Convert PCP files online for free


Drop or upload your .PCP file

How to convert your PCP file

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

Convert PCP to another file type

The converter easily converts your PCP file to various formats - free and online. No Visual Studio Code or extra software needed.

  • PCP to PDF

Convert a file to PCP

The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Cad formats to PCP with high quality output.


About PCP files

A .PCP file is primarily a Plotter Configuration Parameter file, a legacy format used by older versions of Autodesk AutoCAD (Release 12 through 14) to store hardware-specific print settings, such as pen assignments, paper sizes, and plotter calibration data.

While critical for archiving and reproducing historical engineering drawings, .PCP files face significant modern usability challenges. They are obsolete, having been superseded by the more robust PC3 (Plotter Configuration Version 3) and STB/CTB style tables in newer CAD environments. Users often struggle to open these files because they rely on specific, outdated printer drivers that no longer exist on modern operating systems. Furthermore, they are essentially proprietary configuration snippets, meaning they cannot be viewed in standard text editors or web browsers without specific knowledge of the format structure.

To modernize these files, the best approach is converting them to PC3 for continued use in current AutoCAD workflows. For documentation or archiving purposes - where you simply need to read the configuration data - converting to TXT or PDF is recommended to preserve the parameter information in a human-readable, universal format. Convert.guru allows you to identify, view, and transform these legacy configuration files instantly.

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

Users also converted DWG, Q1HNWVKV6CU4EZLZHNAPCP, CTB, PCB, CPC, PCAP, PDF, ZIP, PAGES, RAR, TEXTCLIPPING, WFP and SDOCX files.


FAQ

If you want to convert PCP file to CTB, HP, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP or RB, you can use Autodesk AutoCAD or similar software from the "CAD Plotter Configuration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to PCP, try Autodesk AutoCAD or another comparable tool in the "CAD Plotter Configuration" category.



The PCP 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 PCP converter.