DWI Converter

Extract text from Drawings and game files (DWI)


Drop or upload your .DWI file

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 DWI Files to another format, you need Technosoft Raamwerken or other Cad software.

Convert a file to DWI

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


About DWI files

The .DWI file is a proprietary data container primarily used as a Structural Analysis Drawing in Technosoft Raamwerken or as a Drawing Information File in Autodesk AutoCAD.

In the engineering sector, Technosoft Raamwerken uses the .DWI extension to store 2D/3D structural frame designs, node configurations, and load-bearing calculations. Separately, Autodesk AutoCAD sometimes generates .DWI files to store auxiliary drawing state information alongside primary DWG files. A rare third variant is the Dance With Intensity Step File, a text-based format used by the early 2000s rhythm game developed by SimWolf to store step charts and song metadata.

These professional engineering files are locked into expensive ecosystems. You cannot open a Technosoft or AutoCAD .DWI file natively in web browsers, standard image viewers, or basic word processors. Collaborators without a costly CAD license or a specialized Technosoft installation will not be able to view your design data. Because the internal data structures are strictly closed-source and proprietary, generic online converters completely fail to process them.

If you need to share these designs, you usually must use the native software to export them to universal formats like PDF for viewing or DXF for cross-platform CAD work. Direct external conversion is notoriously difficult. However, convert.guru offers a practical workaround. Just drag and drop your .DWI file to identify the exact format, view it, and convert it when possible. Our analyzer will inspect the file headers and extract readable text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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.