DWGeditor
Edit or maintain AutoCAD drawings
Included with SolidWorks is the DWGeditor. The DWGeditor is for SolidWorks customers who use AutoCAD® to edit or maintain existing DWG files and provides a low risk, low cost alternative for editing DWG files in their native format, using a familiar user interface. Unlike AutoCAD, the DWGEditor is available without costly upgrades from multiple vendors.
DWGeditor is like a free AutoCAD that comes with SolidWorks. We’ve been able to take advantage of it because a lot of electrical engineering documentation is produced in the DWG format.
Mike McGuire, President, Wingspan Design
DWGeditor Features & Benefits
Very simlar to AutoCAD
The DWGeditor is very similar to AutoCAD and offers the following features to help SolidWorks users with AutoCAD legacy data:
- Fully functional AutoCAD command line
- Display manipulation and control
- Entity creation command set
- Entity modification tools
- Annotation and dimensioning tools
- Layer control
- Edit and create Block data
- Management of XREFs
Integration with other SolidWorks applications
The editing environment provides functionality for supporting DWG and DXF legacy files and includes the following interaction and integration:
- SolidWorks Workgroup PDM can be launched from within the DWGEditor so DWG/DXF files can be checked in or out of the Vault
- DWG/DXF files can be published to an eDrawing
- DWG/DXF geometry can be cut and pasted from the editor into SolidWorks for 2D to 3D conversion.
Additional licenses of the Standalone DWGeditor
The DWGeditor End User License Agreement (EULA) provides SolidWorks Subscription Service customers a license to install and use 3 copies of the DWGeditor software for each license of the SolidWorks® software they own. A standalone version of DWGeditor is also available to SolidWorks Subscription Service customers.
