Open RD files in your browser
The job RDWorks and LightBurn send to a Ruida controller, the brain of many CO2 lasers. Open one right here and see what it will cut. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your job opens as the laser will run it, each layer in its color on a white ground, with its layers and their settings in the panel beside it.
- Every cut, line and fill in its layer's color
- Layers • Speed, power and passes • Hide one or show it alone
- Measure in millimeters • Its size, origin and material
- Export • DXF, SVG, PDF at real size and PNG
About RD
Ruida's controllers run many of the CO2 lasers sold under other names, and they read jobs as RD files from a USB stick or over the cable. RDWorks, Ruida's own app, and LightBurn write them: the controller's commands, each layer's speed and power and every move and cut in micrometers, with each byte scrambled the way Ruida's controllers expect.
Only the laser runs one, and RDWorks shows the jobs it saved. Nothing built into Windows, macOS or phones opens one.
Filepeek unscrambles the job in your browser and draws its cuts on a white ground, each layer in its color, at its real size in millimeters, as seen from above. The panel lists the layers with their speed and power, and engraved layers by their lines. Measure between two points, see the job's size and origin in Show details, and export it as DXF for another laser app, SVG, PDF at its real size or PNG.
Ruida laser job
.rd
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Ruida
Inside the file
- Layers
- Each one's color, speed and power
- Moves and cuts
- In micrometers from the machine's origin
- Engraving
- Lines back and forth across the work
- Bytes
- Scrambled, as Ruida's controllers read them
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens Ruida's RD jobs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers download them, and Windows, macOS, iOS and Android need RDWorks or the laser itself to run one.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open RD
- WindowsRDWorks
- MacNo app built in opens it
- iPhone and iPadNo app built in opens it
- AndroidNo app built in opens it
Questions
Can I edit an RD file in LightBurn?
No: an RD holds the laser's moves, not the shapes they came from. Save it as DXF here, and import that into LightBurn, RDWorks or any laser app to work on its lines.
Where's the picture I engraved?
A Ruida job keeps a picture as the lines the laser runs across it, back and forth, so it shows as lines on its layer, not as the picture it was made from.
Is every .rd file a laser job?
No. R's packages keep their help pages in .Rd files too, and those open as text.