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DWG Import for Alibre Design - AutoCAD DWG file import add-on for Alibre Design

DWG Import for Alibre Design is an AutoCAD DWG file import add-on for Alibre Design®. It gives Alibre Design the ability to import solid objects from AutoCAD DWG files as solids models in Alibre Design.

Alibre Design already has an AutoCAD DWG import feature. However, this import feature creates a 2D drawing in Alibre Design by reading 2d geometric objects such as curves and ignores 3D solids. DWG Import for Alibre Design removes this limitation by giving Alibre Design the ability to read 3D solid geometric data such as ACIS 3D solids, bodies and regions in an AutoCAD DWG file and create corresponding 3D solid models in an Alibre Design part document.

DWG Import 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 "DWGImport" to the Alibre Design menu containing these newly added commands.

DWG Import for Alibre Design comes with detailed documentation as well as a tutorial to get you started in the shortest possible time.

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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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