TRA Converter

Extract text from TRA files

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Drop or upload your .TRA file

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How to extract text from your TRA file

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 your TRA file to another format, you need ZwickRoell testXpert or other Data software.

Convert a file to TRA

To convert other file formats to the "Engineering Test Results" file type, you need software like ZwickRoell testXpert or a similar tool.

About TRA files

The .TRA file extension is a versatile format primarily utilized for Material Testing Data generated by engineering platforms like ZwickRoell testXpert and Instron Bluehill. In this engineering context, the file stores critical raw data from tensile, compression, and hardness tests. A frequent challenge for engineers is that these files often use proprietary encoding, making the raw data inaccessible without the original, expensive lab software. This creates a bottleneck when trying to perform statistical analysis in Microsoft Excel or share results with clients who lack the specific testing suite.

A secondary but significant use is in model railroading, where WinTrack saves complex track layout designs as .TRA files. Hobbyists often struggle to share these vector-based designs because standard image viewers and web browsers cannot natively display them.

Best Conversion Targets:

For Engineering Data: Convert to CSV, XLSX, or XML to unlock the raw numbers for analysis in spreadsheet software.
For Track Plans: Convert to PDF, JPG, or PNG to easily view, print, and share model railway layouts.
For Logs & Game Text: Convert to TXT to inspect dialogue files from BioWare games or audit logs from Sage X3.

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

Users also converted TAR, PDF, TXT, CSV, ENC, ZS2, XTAK and KDT files.

FAQ

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 "Material Testing Data Results" 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 "Material Testing Data Results" 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.