Convert SDA files online for free
The converter easily converts your SDA file to various formats - free and online. No Excel or extra software needed.
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Data formats to SDA with high quality output.
The .sda extension is notoriously ambiguous, representing two completely different file types that often confuse users. Most frequently (approx. 28%), it is a data file created by Molecular Devices SoftMax Pro, used to store microplate reader analysis for life sciences. These files are proprietary and functionally locked; sharing experimental results with colleagues who lack a SoftMax Pro license is impossible without conversion. The practical solution is converting these datasets to XLSX (Excel) for statistical analysis or PDF for immutable reporting.
Alternatively, an .sda file is a legacy StarOffice Drawing (the ancestor of LibreOffice Draw). These vector graphics files are now obsolete and unsupported by modern suites like Microsoft Office. Users attempting to open old archives often find these files inaccessible. To view or edit them today, they must be converted to modern standards like PDF for archiving, JPG/PNG for web use, or ODG for continued editing in open-source tools. Additionally, in enterprise environments, .sda may refer to a SAP Software Deployment Archive, which is essentially a renamed ZIP container.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your SDA file.
Users also converted TXT, RAW, SGD, ZIP, HTML, MAT, PDF, PGP, SEP and RND files.
If you want to convert SDA file to JSON, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use SoftMax Pro or similar software from the "Scientific Data Storage" 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 SDA, try SoftMax Pro or another comparable tool in the "Scientific Data Storage" category.
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 SDA converter.