Format
AutoCAD Drawing
Summary
- Name
- AutoCAD Drawing
- Version
- R10
- Identifiers
-
- PUID: fmt/31
- MIME: image/vnd.dwg
- Format type
- Image (Vector)
- Family
- DWG
- Disclosure
- None
- Description
- The AutoCAD Drawing format is a vector graphics format, and is the native file format of AutoDesk's AutoCAD family of products. The format is proprietary and AutoDesk does not make details of its structure public. The information contained here is derived primarily from the OpenDWG Alliance's reverse-engineered documentation of the format, and should not therefore be regarded as definitive. The basic structure of a DWG file comprises a header section, a drawing class definitions section, the drawing object data, a drawing object map, which contains the locations of all the objects in the drawing, and an image data section, which may contain a raster image of the drawing in either Windows Bitmap (BMP) or Windows Metafile (WMF) format. DWG version 10 is the version of the format associated with Release 10 of AutoCAD.
- File extensions
-
dwg - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
- Is previous version of
- Is subsequent version of
Internal signatures
AutoCAD Drawing Format R10
- Note
- Header
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
414331303036- Endianness
- None