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Summary
Name	AutoCAD Drawing
Version	2018/2019/2020/2021
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/1395 MIME: image/vnd.dwg
Family
Classification	Image (Vector)
Disclosure
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.
Orientation
Byte order
Related file formats	None.
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	Autodesk
Supported by	Autodesk
Source	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Source date	25 Sep 2020
Source description
Last updated	25 Sep 2020
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