Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TRA file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TRA to another file type
To convert TRA Trace logs to another format, you need ZwickRoell testXpert or other Data software.
Convert a file to TRA
To convert other file formats to the "Scientific Data File" file type, you need software like ZwickRoell testXpert or a similar tool.
About TRA files
A .TRA file is highly fragmented across multiple industries, but its most critical role is storing materials testing data. These files are generated by specialized industrial hardware and managed by proprietary software like ZwickRoell testXpert and Instron Bluehill. Beyond physical material testing, the .TRA extension is widely used for batch process trace logs in Sage X3, accounting data exports in Cegid, and dialogue translation files in Adventure Game Studio. The main disadvantage of the .TRA format is severe vendor lock-in. Because most testing .TRA files are proprietary binary containers, you typically need an expensive enterprise license or a dedicated lab workstation to open them, making it incredibly frustrating to share raw test results with external researchers or clients. To make this data useful, you must extract and convert it. For custom data analysis and graphing, convert testing .TRA files to CSV or XLSX. For sharing test results or compliance logs securely, convert to PDF. If you are handling a Sage X3 trace log or an indie game translation, converting to TXT will expose the underlying plain text for immediate viewing. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing specialized software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TRA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TRA file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use ZwickRoell testXpert or similar software from the "Materials Testing 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 TRA, try ZwickRoell testXpert or another comparable tool in the "Materials Testing Data Storage" category.
The TRA 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 TRA converter.