How to extract text from your USD file
- Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your USD file.
- You’ll see a preview, if available.
- Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert USD to another file type
To convert your USD file to another format, you need OpenUSD or other 3D software.
- USD to NAD
- USD to OBJ
- USD to FBX
- USD to DAE
- USD to 3DS
- USD to MAX
- USD to BLEND
- USD to MA
- USD to MB
- USD to C4D
- USD to STL
- USD to PLY
Convert a file to USD
To convert other file formats to the "Scene Description Framework" file type, you need software like OpenUSD or a similar tool.
- DWG to USD
- DAE to USD
- X3D to USD
- IGES to USD
- WRL to USD
- JT to USD
- SKP to USD
- 3DS to USD
- 3DM to USD
- OBJ to USD
- STEP to USD
- FBX to USD
About USD files
A .usd file is a Universal Scene Description container, a high-performance 3D scene description framework developed by Pixar Animation Studios. Unlike simple mesh formats, a single USD file often acts as a "root" that assembles complex scene hierarchies, lighting, shading, and animation data from multiple sources. While it is the industry standard for high-end VFX pipelines (used in tools like Maya and Houdini), this complexity is often frustrating for casual users. A raw .usd file may be binary-encoded (making it unreadable in text editors), or it may rely on external asset references (textures, sub-layers) that break if the file is moved individually. Furthermore, standard operating systems and web browsers cannot natively open or preview these files without specialized, often expensive, software. To make the 3D data accessible for web viewing, AR applications, or game engines like Unity, users typically convert USD files to GLB (for web/mobile), FBX (for broad game engine compatibility), or OBJ (for basic geometry extraction).
Convert.Guru analyzes your USD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted UDS, USDC, WORDDOCUMENT, RIB and NAD files.
The USD 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 USD converter.