Extract text from Sketchware or SolidWorks files (SWB)
To convert SWB files to another format, you need Sketchware or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Project & Macro File" file type, you need software like Sketchware or a similar tool.
The .SWB file extension primarily identifies a Sketchware Android Project file. Sketchware is a block-based visual programming app used on Android devices to create mobile applications. Under the hood, an .SWB file is completely structured as a standard ZIP archive containing the app's source code, assets, and user interface layouts. Another major use for the .SWB extension is a SolidWorks VBA Macro file created by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks. These files contain Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripting used by engineers to automate complex 3D CAD modeling tasks.
Users frequently struggle with .SWB files because they are highly proprietary and specialized. A Sketchware project is essentially locked to an Android device unless you know how to unpack it, and opening a SolidWorks macro to read the code normally requires an expensive, multi-gigabyte desktop CAD installation. Additionally, MikroTik network administrators encounter .SWB files as binary SwitchOS configuration backups, which cannot be read natively by any PC software.
For developers handling Sketchware files, the ideal workaround is converting or renaming the file to ZIP so the internal XML, JSON, and JAVA files can be accessed on a desktop. For SolidWorks macros, converting the file to TXT or VBA allows the raw automation code to be viewed safely in a text editor.
Because .SWB files serve drastically different software ecosystems, standard web converters typically fail to process them. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. Our system will analyze the file signature to detect if it is a compressed ZIP structure or a text-based macro, giving you immediate access to its embedded contents.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SWB file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted ZIP, AIA, HTML, JPG, APK, TWS, MTP and LYS files.
If you want to convert SWB file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use Sketchware or similar software from the "Android App Project Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to SWB, try Sketchware or another comparable tool in the "Android App Project 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 SWB converter.