To convert a DWG to PDF for free, drop the .dwg on this page with PDF selected, sign in with the one-click link we email you (free account, no card) and download the PDF. CADdillo reads DWG from R11 through the 2018 format, files up to 30 MB, and plots black lines on white as a vector PDF.
Somebody emailed you a DWG and you do not own AutoCAD. Drop it here and get a print-ready PDF back — or DXF, PNG or SVG. Reads DWG r11 through r2018. No install — free account, no card.
| AutoCAD release | DWG format | What you can get |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 and later | AC1032 | PDF, DXF, PNG, SVG |
| 2013 to 2017 | AC1027 | PDF, DXF, PNG, SVG |
| 2010 to 2012 | AC1024 | PDF, DXF, PNG, SVG |
| 2007 to 2009 | AC1021 | PDF, DXF, PNG, SVG |
| 2004 to 2006 | AC1018 | PDF, DXF, PNG, SVG |
| 2000 to 2002 | AC1015 | PDF, DXF, PNG, SVG |
| R14 | AC1014 | PDF, DXF, PNG, SVG |
| R13 | AC1012 | PDF, DXF, PNG, SVG |
| R11 / R12 | AC1009 | PDF, DXF, PNG, SVG |
Most drawings plot in a second or two. A heavy drawing can take a minute or more; when an SVG would be too large, or a heavy drawing runs out of plotting time, it comes back as a PNG, and the converter tells you when it does.
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Email sign-in required: files are converted on our servers, so we verify every user. One-click link, no password. We never sell your email to third parties. Create a free account (no card) to convert files up to 30 MB. How it works: drop your file, enter your email, click the link we send you, and your file opens converted, ready to download.
This usually takes a few seconds.
What this drawing can become: open it in the free editor to measure, mark up and change it, ask Dillo Bot to edit it, or export it again as DWG, DXF, PDF, PNG, SVG or G-code.
Just want to look at a drawing? The free browser viewer parses DXF entirely on your machine — nothing is uploaded at all.
Know the output you want? Go straight to DXF to PDF, DWG to SVG or DWG to DXF, or cut it on a CNC with DWG to G-code — or see all the free tools.
Black-on-white vector plot — what you send a contractor, a client or a plan reviewer.
Open interchange format every CAD program reads and writes. Stays fully editable.
Drop into a report, an email, a slide deck or a work order.
Infinite zoom without pixelation — for the web, or for Illustrator and Figma.
Need DWG out? The CADdillo editor exports r2000 DWG, which every version of AutoCAD opens. Open the editor. DWG files written by CADdillo open in AutoCAD and other CAD software; AutoCAD shows a notice that the file was not created by an Autodesk application, which is normal for every non-Autodesk CAD tool.
Most people who receive a DWG are not drafters. You are a contractor, a facilities manager, a shop owner, a project manager — and a vendor just sent you a file you cannot open. Converting it should take fifteen seconds and cost nothing.
Need to resize, crop or convert an image before you trace it? imageinseconds.com does that in the browser, free, with no upload — and turns a set of images into one multi-page PDF.
Drop your .dwg file on this page, choose PDF, and download the result. CADdillo reads DWG r11 through r2018 and plots the drawing to a print-ready PDF — black lines on white paper, the way a CAD sheet is supposed to print. You need a free account (no card) and no software install.
No. That is the whole point of this tool. AutoCAD costs roughly $2,030 a year and AutoCAD LT about $500, and you do not need either one just to turn a drawing someone emailed you into a PDF. CADdillo does the conversion in the browser with nothing to install.
Yes. The plot uses CAD plotting convention rather than screen convention: black geometry on a white background with the drawing’s own lineweights honored. It is a plot, not a screenshot of a dark CAD window — so it prints and reads correctly on paper.
From a DWG or DXF you can produce PDF (print-ready sheet), DXF (editable CAD), PNG (image for documents) and SVG (scalable vector). DWG output is available inside the CADdillo editor, written as r2000 so every version of AutoCAD opens it.
No, and it is worth knowing why. DWF is a published-plot format — a finished, view-only output, not a CAD drawing. It does not carry the editable geometry a DWG or DXF does. If someone sent you a DWF, ask them for the source DWG or DXF; you will get a far better result and a file you can actually edit.
Email sign-in required: files are converted on our servers, so we verify every user. One-click link, no password. We never sell your email to third parties. A free account (no card) converts files up to 30 MB. After a successful conversion the uploaded file and its converted output are deleted as soon as the response is returned — they are transient artifacts, not kept.
Plotting to PDF, PNG or SVG renders every entity in the drawing, so time scales with drawing complexity — a 60,000-entity facility plan takes roughly a minute, while a small detail sheet is nearly instant. Converting to DXF is a format transcode rather than a plot, so it is much faster regardless of size.
Yes — convert to DXF and open it in CADdillo, where you get real drafting tools and Dillo Bot, an AI that drafts changes when you describe them in plain English. PDF, PNG and SVG are output formats, so those are for sharing and printing rather than editing.
If a file fails to convert or display, we may keep that one file privately so we can find and fix the cause. It is reviewed anonymously, with no name or email attached, never shared with or given to any third party, sold, or used to train AI, and deleted once the bug is fixed (within 30 days at most). Files that convert successfully are never kept.
The converter is free forever. The editor is where it gets interesting.
