Hi everyone,

I'm really newbie in this thing. Currently I'm using an engineering software and the output files from that software need to be converted into another software in order the results to be display in 3D format. So there's no problem for that. But the challenge was I need to look what is inside the output files. It suppose to be in coding format (I'm not sure what types of coding been used). When I tried to open the file using text file (Notepad, Notepad++, Wordpad, Word etc...), it was in symbol-format so that I can't understand it (refer to attached file for example).

Is there any ways/tools that I can use to convert the file so that it can be readable?

Thanks in advance.

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Perhaps you need to understand the disquisition of "code" and script. A code MAY not always make sense. A script is CLOSER to how people read and write.
A script is something done by human hand or can be read by the human.
But code is code. It is a set of values meaningful to a machine or device. Or maybe readable by a human.

If you want to 'see' code, you need an editor that will present code in a form that means something to the human eye. Notepad, Word and other such tools do not represent all codes. Only those codes used for word processing.

Perhaps what you expect is an editor that converts the output into a script.

Some professional programmers sometimes wish to look at the raw code and see the actual output, even if it does not make sense. To make it readable, the human may ask to see the code in hexadecimal format. one byte at a time.

Example. A man wrote a program called TEST.COM and wants to see the raw code.
Using a PC, he gives this command at the command prompt.
Code: [Select]D:\BIN>debug test.com
-d
13BF:0100 B4 01 CD 21 88 C2 88 D6-52 51 B4 02 CD 21 59 5A ...!....RQ..
13BF:0110 88 D0 FE C2 41 3C 5A 90-75 EE 90 B8 00 4C 88 E8 ....A<Z.u...
13BF:0120 CD 21 90 5A 90 76 76 76-76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 .!.Z.vvvvvvv
The part above, the human typed "debug test.com" followed by enter ant then the letter "d" followed by enter. The rest is from the computer screen. (The debug program was once used in Windows programming.)
In this case, the code does not make much sense. But at least it does represent the output in a form the man can see. The example above is typical for the hexadecimal representation. If need be, the human could alter the code and SAVE it.
Thanks for the comment...
Yes I'm sorry for my misunderstanding about the 'code' and 'script' since I'm not in this area. So if I'm not mistaken, the problem is I tried to read the output files using Notepad, MS Word etc...which will display in funny characters. So do I need an editor to open the output files so that it will be in readable format? Any suggestion on specific editor?
The problem is that it is a binary file format. Given I can find no information based on the "Drop Velocity" part of what I WOULD expect to be the header, and you didn't mention any names for the software that created it, or any file formats that it could be, I suspect it is a proprietary and poorly documented file format which isn't uncommon for those sorts of programs.Just to update about this problem...
Actually I just tried to CHANGE in "save as" option into the text format and it works...!!! Maybe I was misslook at this option before. Anyway, thanks for your comments and advices here. Really appreciate it. Thanks...!!