CAD Formats

AutoCAD™

DWG - all versions (up to Autodesk AutoCAD® 2024)

DXF ASCII/BINARY all versions

Drawing Template

DWT

Autodesk Design Web Format

DWF

CADSoftTools drawing template

DXT

Vector Image and Metafiles

Scalable Vector Graphics

SVG, SVGZ

Hewlett-Packard HPGL

PLT, HGL, HG, HPG, PLO, HP, HP1, HP2, HP3, HPGL, HPGL2, HPP, GL, GL2, PRN, SPL, RTL, PCL

Metafiles

WMF

Enhanced Metafiles

EMF

3D Formats

3D Studio and many others

3DS

Stereolithography file format (ANSI and binary)

STL

Initial Graphics Exchange Specification

IGES

Standard for the Exchange of Product model data

STEP

WaveFront Model File

OBJ

Parasolid® Model Part File

X_T, X_B

SolidWorks® Part File

SLDPRT

SolidWorks® Assembly File

SLDASM

ACIS SAT Model File

SAT

Boundary Representation File Format

BREP

Autodesk Inventor Data Format

FSAT

ACIS binary file

SAB

Autodesk Shape Manager Text File

SMT

AutoDesk Inventor CAD part

IPT

Industry Foundation Classes

IFC

GNU Triangulated Surface

GTS

Triangular Irregular Network vector file format

TIN

ASCI Scene Export

ASE

Blitz 3D model files

B3D

Ghoul2 (GLM) model files

GLM, GLX, GLA

Pulsar Studio LMTS File Format

LMTS

LightWave 3D Object File (6.0 or above)

LWO

Nurbs surfaces vector file

NURBS

NormalMapper Files

NMF

FSRad OCT Files

OCT

Stanford Triangle Format vector file

PLY

Virtual Reality Modeling Language vector file

VRML

MDSfiles

MDC

Quake2

MD2

Quake3

MD3

Doom3 mesh vector file format

MD5

Half-Life

SMD

Quake3

BSP

Raster Image

Autodesk images

CEL, PIC

CALS Image

CAL, CG4, GP4

Compuserve GIF

GIF

Icon file

ICO

JPEG images

JPG, JPEG

JPEG 2000 images

J2K, J2C, JNG, JP2

Portable network graphic images

PNG

Tagged Image File Format TIF images

TIF, TIFF

Windows Bitmap

BMP, RLE, DIB

Complex Formats

Computer Graphics Metafile

CGM