SWC Converter

Extract text from SWC files


Drop or upload your .SWC file
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How to extract text from your SWC file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SWC file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert SWC to another file type

To convert your SWC file to another format, you need Adobe Animate or other Developer software.

  • SWC to JS
  • SWC to TS
  • SWC to PY
  • SWC to JAVA
  • SWC to CPP
  • SWC to C
  • SWC to CS
  • SWC to PHP
  • SWC to RB
  • SWC to GO
  • SWC to RS
  • SWC to SWIFT

Convert a file to SWC

To convert other file formats to the "Component Library / 3D Data" file type, you need software like Adobe Animate or a similar tool.

  • SH to SWC
  • PY to SWC
  • KT to SWC
  • PS1 to SWC
  • SWIFT to SWC
  • LUA to SWC
  • PL to SWC
  • JAVA to SWC
  • SCALA to SWC
  • JS to SWC
  • VBS to SWC
  • TS to SWC

About SWC files

The .SWC file extension represents two distinct but technical file formats: the Adobe Flash Component and the Neuronal Morphology data file.

Most commonly (approx. 60%), an SWC file is a Flash Component archive used by legacy Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) and Flex projects. These files are simply ZIP archives that bundle compiled ActionScript code, a library.swf file, and a catalog.xml descriptor. Users typically encounter friction here because the Flash Player is End-of-Life (EOL), making these files difficult to open or inspect without expensive, legacy development software. To access the internal assets (like icons, sounds, or the SWF movie), you do not always need a converter; you can often just rename the file extension from .SWC to ZIP and extract it.

In scientific fields, an .SWC file is a standard ASCII text format used to describe the 3D structure of neurons (skeletons). These files contain geometric data (node ID, radius, coordinates) used by researchers. The main challenge is that standard 3D software (like Blender) cannot natively open them. Researchers and 3D artists need to convert these .SWC files to OBJ or VTK formats to render the neuronal structures or use them in 3D visualization pipelines.

Convert.Guru analyzes your SWC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted SCW, SMC, PNG, SRM, RSN and FRZ files.



The SWC 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 SWC converter.