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Introduction
DWG Export for Alibre
Design is an AutoCAD DWG file export add-on for Alibre Design®. This
add-on gives Alibre Design the ability to export 3D solid data from a
Alibre Design part and assembly document to 3d solids or meshes in an
AutoCAD DWG file.
DWG Export for Alibre Design reads the solid models from the
current Alibre Design part or assembly and writes them as 3d solids in
an AutoCAD DWG file. It can also tessellate the solid bodies into
individual triangular meshes. These meshes are then exported to a DWG
file as 3D Polyface mesh, 3D Face, Line or Point objects.
DWG Export for Alibre Design is very easy to use. It adds new
commands to Alibre Design. Once installed, it automatically loads itself
into Alibre Design and adds a new submenu called "DWGExport" to the
Alibre Design menu containing these newly
added commands.
DWG Export for Alibre
Design comes with detailed documentation for
each command as well as a tutorial
to get you started in the shortest possible time.
If you need any additional information please
contact SYCODE.
The DWG File Format
DWG is a format used for storing two and three dimensional design data
and metadata. It is the native format for the AutoCAD Computer Aided
Design package, as well as IntelliCAD (and its variants), and PowerCAD.
DWG is supported non-natively by several hundred other software
applications.
DWG (denoted by the .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. From 1982 to 2007, Autodesk created versions of AutoCAD which
wrote no less than 18 major variants of the DWG file format, none of
which it publicly documented.
The DWG format, has become a de facto standard for CAD drawing
interoperability. It has been estimated that there are in excess of two
to four billion DWG files in existence.
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