DWI Converter

Extract text from DWI files


Drop or upload your .DWI file
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How to extract text from your DWI file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DWI file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert DWI to another file type

To convert your DWI file to another format, you need Technosoft Raamwerken or other Cad software.

Convert a file to DWI

To convert other file formats to the "Structural Engineering Data" file type, you need software like Technosoft Raamwerken or a similar tool.


About DWI files

A .dwi file is most frequently a structural analysis drawing created by Technosoft Raamwerken, a specialized engineering software used for calculating 2D and 3D frames in steel, concrete, and timber. These files contain critical engineering data, including geometry, loads, and support definitions. A secondary but popular use is as a Dance With Intensity step file, a plain text format used by rhythm simulators like StepMania and ArrowVortex to store song metadata and arrow patterns.

Users often struggle with .dwi files because they are highly proprietary. A Technosoft drawing cannot be opened without a paid license for the Raamwerken software, locking clients and contractors out of viewing essential structural details. Similarly, game files are unreadable to standard media players. For engineering purposes, the best workflow is converting .dwi to PDF for universal viewing or DXF to import the geometry into AutoCAD. For rhythm game enthusiasts, converting legacy DWI files to the modern SM (StepMania) format ensures compatibility with newer engines.

Convert.Guru analyzes your DWI file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert DWI file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Technosoft Raamwerken or similar software from the "Structural Analysis Drawing" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to DWI, try Technosoft Raamwerken or another comparable tool in the "Structural Analysis Drawing" category.



The DWI 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 DWI converter.