Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SSQ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SSQ to another file type
To convert SSQ Data files to another format, you need DS License Server or other Data software.
Convert a file to SSQ
To convert other file formats to the "Software License File" file type, you need software like DS License Server or a similar tool.
About SSQ files
The .SSQ file extension is most commonly a Dassault Systèmes license activation file. It is used by the DS License Server to authenticate and manage enterprise licenses for expensive engineering and CAD software. These files contain encrypted or highly structured text data that verifies the software purchaser's credentials and hardware IDs. Other software also utilizes the .SSQ extension. Legacy Amiga systems use it for Squash! compressed audio files or game data. It is also used for statistical database saved queries, Quest3D channel data, and Gradius V stage sequences. Users often try to open .SSQ files to verify license details, read expiration dates, or migrate servers. However, the Dassault Systèmes format is proprietary, closed, and strictly tied to specific hardware. You cannot simply convert a license file into a generic format like TXT or PDF and expect the target software to still read it. Standard online converters fail to process .SSQ files because they lack the proprietary decryption keys. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format - such as plain text within a license file or an audio stream in an Amiga game file - viewing or extraction may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SSQ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SSQ file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use DS License Server or similar software from the "Software License Activation" 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 SSQ, try DS License Server or another comparable tool in the "Software License Activation" category.
The SSQ 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 SSQ converter.