↑ ' DigiBarn Stories: Mike Riddle & the Story of AutoCAD, Eas圜AD, FastCAD & more'.↑ ' Mike Riddle's Prehistoric AutoCAD - Retro Thing'.↑ Non-natively: i.e., the file format is supported by translation from or to another file formats.Wikipedia contributors, '.dwg', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Accessed March 16, 2010.DXF, Autodesk's Drawing Exchange Format.ProgeCAD Smart can read/edit/write DWG files. ProgeCAD smart Free for non-commercial use, registration required.Updates every 8 months, viewing and measurement to scale with geometry coordinate snapping. Free DWG Viewer No registration required.It is the only such application which runs on the Linux operating system. VariCAD Viewer is a CAD/CAM file viewer able to render DWG files.eDrawings Viewer by SolidWorks, 11.8 Mb.Caddie Requires registration, the free version plots and edits but does not save.Design Review 2010 (36 MB) from Autodesk can view DWG files if installed with the DWG Reader (DWG TrueView) option (153 MB total) that also includes DWG TrueConvert that can convert to AutoCAD R14, AutoCAD 2000, AutoCAD 2004, AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD 2010 DWG file formats.

Linux Drawing Viewer / Lx-Viewer only for members of the Open Design Alliance.There are no open source viewers for DWG files since the licensing of the libraries needed by lx-viewer now restricts their use to members of the Open Design Alliance. Autodesk estimates that in 1998 there were in excess of two billion DWG files in existence. The DWG format is probably the most widely used format for CAD drawings. dwg filename extension) was the native file format for the Interact CAD package, developed by Mike Riddle in the late 1970s, and subsequently licensed by Autodesk in 1982 as the basis for AutoCAD.

Varicad viewer