DWG to PDF

Convert a DWG file (AutoCAD) to PDF document.

DWG is the internal binary database format for AutoCAD. AutoDesk does not publish the DWG file format information. Some companies have reverse engineered the file format. DWG is now being supported by certain non-AutoCAD systems in the same manner that DXF is supported by non-AutoCAD systems: as a secondary format, not the native database format. Currently only one non-AutoDesk CAD system, Vdraft by SoftSource, supports DWG as its native database.

If you want to send a DWG file to users who do not have AutoCAD so that they can view the drawings, you can convert DWG to PDF files. PDF stands for Portable Document Format. A PDF file preserves the format of an original document, and contains all the original fonts, images & graphic information, layout and formatting.

A PDF file can be viewed and printed without format loss from any operating system, including Windows, MacOS, and all Unix variants including Linux, using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Therefore, PDF files are used to represent and exchange printable documents electronically. You can send them by email, publish to the Web and much, much more.

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It can conveniently convert DWG,DXF and DWF files into WMF, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TIFF, PNG, TGA, DXF, DWG, SVG, SVGZ, CGM, EPS, PDF, HPGL etc., and also enable the conversion between DXF and DWG file versions (AutoCAD R2.5-R2006). Supports Transmit command like AutoCAD, and batch recover drawing files, Supports replace font files.

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It is available for automating AutoCAD to print DWG to PDF. You require AutoCAD installed for using the option "DWG2PDF". You can assign the printer configuration and the layout name. Hence it becomes easier for batch converting, .e.g, to print the specified layout of all DWG files to PDF using the specific configuration.