The DWG format was originally designed by Mike Riddle in 1977 and licensed to AutoDesk Inc. in 1982 for creating two- and three-dimensional drawings. Although DWG is designed for AutoCAD, other ...

The AutoCAD drafting software uses the DWG file extension to store full 2- and 3-D drawings and the DWF extension to store highly-compressed design data in vector form. Because of their smaller size, ...