CAD Formats

AutoCAD®

DWG all versions (up to Autodesk AutoCAD® 2025)

DXF ASCII DXF/BINARY all versions

Drawing Template

DWT

Autodesk Design Web Format

DWF

CADSoftTools Drawing Template

DXT

Vector Image

Metafiles

WMF

Enhanced Metafiles

EMF

Scalable Vector Graphics

SVG, SVGZ

Encapsulated PostScript

EPS

Adobe Post Script

PS

Hewlett-Packard HPGL

PLT, HGL, HG, HPG, PLO, HP, HP1, HP2, HP3, HPGL, HPGL2, HPP, GL, GL2, PRN, SPL, RTL, PCL

3D Formats

3DS

3D Studio and many others

SAT, SAB

ACIS SAT/SAB Model File

STL

Stereolithography File Format (ASCII and binary)

IGES

Initial Graphics Exchange Specification

STEP

Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data

IPT

Autodesk Inventor Part

FSAT, SMT

Autodesk Shape Manager files

OBJ

Wave Front Model File

IFC

Industry Foundation Classes

X_T, X_B

Parasolid® Model Part File

SLDPRT

SolidWorks® Part File

SLDASM

SolidWorks® Assembly File

BREP

Boundary Representation File Format

GTS

GNU Triangulated Surface

TIN

Triangular Irregular Network Vector File Format

ASE

ASCI Scene Export

B3D

Blitz 3D Model Files

GLM, GLX, GLA

Ghoul2 (GLM) Model Files

LMTS

Pulsar Studio LMTS File Format

LWO

LightWave 3D Object File (6.0 or above)

NURBS

Nurbs Surfaces Vector File

NMF

NormalMapper Files

OCT

FSRad OCT Files

PLY

Stanford Triangle Format Vector File

VRML

Virtual Reality Modeling Language Vector File

MDC

MDSfiles

MD2

Quake2

MD3

Quake3

MD5

Doom3 Mesh Vector File Format

SMD

Half-Life

BSP

Quake3

Complex Formats

Computer Graphics Metafile

CGM

Portable Document Format

PDF

Raster Image

Arts & Letters thumbnail images

GED

Alias/Wavefront images

RLA, RPF

Autodesk images

CEL, PIC

CALS Image

CAL, CG4, GP4

Compuserve GIF

GIF

Dr. Halo images

CUT, PAL

DirectDraw Surface

DDS

GFI fax images

FAX

High Dynamic Range

HDR, IFF

Icon file

ICO

ILM OpenEXR

EXR

Interleaved Bitmap

IMB

JPEG images

JPG, JPEG

JPEG 2000 images

J2K, J2C, JNG, JP2

Koala Graphics

KOA

Macintosh PICT

PCT, PICT

Multiple-image Network Graphics

MNG

Paintshop Pro images

PSP

Photo-CD images

PCD

Photoshop images

PSD, PDD

Portable network graphic images

PNG

Portable pixel map image/

Portable gray map images/

Portable bitmap images

PPM, PGM, PBM

RAW camera image

RAW

Raw Fax Format CCITT

G3

SGI images

BW, RGB, RGBA, SGI

Sun Raster Image

RAS

Tagged Image File Format TIF images

TIF, TIFF

Truevision images

TGA, VST, ICB, VDA, WIN

Windows Bitmap

BMP, RLE, DIB

Wireless Bitmap

WAP, WBMP, WBM

X11 Bitmap Format

XBM

X11 Paxmap Format

XPM

ZSoft Paintbrush images

PCX

Archives

ZIP, TAR, GZ, CAB