Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DWF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert DWF to another file type
To convert DWF CAD designs to another format, you need Autodesk AutoCAD or other Cad software.
Convert a file to DWF
To convert other file formats to the "CAD Drawing Web Format" file type, you need software like Autodesk AutoCAD or a similar tool.
About DWF files
A .DWF (Design Web Format) file is a highly compressed 2D or 3D drawing format created by Autodesk. It is specifically designed to distribute rich CAD data to team members who need to view, review, or print designs but do not have AutoCAD installed. By stripping out the complex metadata and editing overhead found in native formats, .DWF files are much smaller and easier to transmit over email or the web. While useful for sharing, the .DWF format has significant disadvantages. It is fundamentally a 'dead-end' format meant only for viewing. You cannot natively edit the geometry, layers, or structural data inside a .DWF file. It is proprietary to Autodesk, meaning general-purpose image viewers or standard web browsers cannot open it without specialized plugins or the heavy, sometimes outdated Autodesk Design Review software. Furthermore, extracting the original vector data back into a workable CAD environment is notoriously difficult and often results in lost layer information or scaled dimensions. Because of these strict limitations, conversion is usually the only practical way forward. For standard sharing, document archiving, or client review, convert your .DWF to PDF. If you need to re-import the drawing into a CAD environment for editing, convert it to DWG or DXF (though be aware that some parametric data may be flattened). For quick web previews or embedding in presentations, raster formats like PNG or WebP are best.
Convert.Guru analyzes your DWF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert DWF file to PDF, DWG, DXF, KML, STP, OBJ, FBX, DAE, 3DS, MAX, BLEND or MA, you can use Autodesk AutoCAD or similar software from the "CAD Drawing Review & Sharing" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DWG, DAE, X3D, IGES, WRL, JT, SKP, 3DS, 3DM, OBJ, STEP or FBX files to DWF, try Autodesk AutoCAD or another comparable tool in the "CAD Drawing Review & Sharing" category.
The DWF Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our DWF converter.