Turn a DWG into a real vector SVG — for a laser cutter, a web page, or Inkscape and Illustrator. Reads DWG r11 through r2018. Drop one file in, no install and no account — five conversions a day free.
Output: SVG — scalable vector
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5 free conversions a day, no account needed. Create a free account for more and files up to 30 MB.
Plotting every entity in the drawing to vector paths. A large plan can take up to a minute.
Need a different output instead? The full converter also writes PDF, PNG and DXF from the same drawing.
Just want to look at a drawing? The free browser viewer parses DXF entirely on your own machine — nothing is uploaded.
DWG is Autodesk’s binary CAD format and almost nothing outside CAD opens it. SVG is the vector format everything else already speaks — cutting software, vector editors, browsers. Converting bridges the two without flattening the drawing into pixels.
LightBurn, Glowforge, Cricut Design Space and most vinyl cutters take SVG directly. A DWG they will not touch — an SVG of the same part loads and cuts.
SVG opens natively in both, with the geometry still as editable paths rather than a flattened image. Recolor it, restyle it, drop it in a layout.
An SVG in a page stays crisp on every display at every zoom level, and it is a fraction of the weight of a PNG big enough to be readable.
A large facility plan at letter size is a grey smear as a PDF or PNG. The same plan as SVG zooms infinitely without pixelating.
Need a printable sheet instead? Plot black-on-white to PDF.
Cutting on a CNC router? Export GRBL .nc with cutter compensation.
All four outputs in one place — PDF, DXF, PNG and SVG.
If the drawing started life as a photo or scan, resize or convert it first at imageinseconds.com — free, browser-side, nothing leaves your machine.
Drop your .dwg file on the converter above. Output is already set to SVG, so the file comes straight back as a vector SVG you can download. It reads DWG r11 through r2018 and needs no software install and no account — five files a day free. DXF input works the same way.
It is real vector output. The drawing is plotted to SVG path and shape elements, not wrapped around a rasterised bitmap, so it scales to any size without pixelating and opens as editable paths in Inkscape, Illustrator, Affinity Designer and Figma.
Yes — SVG is the format most laser and vinyl cutting software accepts, including LightBurn, Glowforge and Cricut Design Space. Import it, then confirm the scale in your cutting software before you burn anything: SVG carries units less rigidly than a CAD file does, so a quick dimension check against the original drawing is worth the ten seconds. If you want to cut on a CNC router instead, export GRBL G-code from the DXF rather than going through SVG.
DWG r11 through r2018, which covers essentially every drawing anyone is likely to send you — old archived vendor files included. DXF input is accepted too, in any version.
Five conversions a day are free with no account at all, up to 10 MB, behind a quick bot check. A free account (no card required) removes the daily limit and raises the file cap to 30 MB. There is no trial timer — the converter is free permanently.
The conversion runs server-side, because reading the binary DWG format requires it. The uploaded file and its converted SVG are deleted immediately after the response is returned — they are transient artifacts and are never stored. If you only need to look at a DXF, the in-browser viewer parses it entirely on your own machine with no upload at all.
Converting to SVG is a plot: every entity in the drawing gets rendered. A small detail sheet is nearly instant, while a 60,000-entity facility plan takes up to about a minute. Converting to DXF instead is a format transcode rather than a plot, so it is much faster if a vector CAD file is all you actually need.
Pick SVG when something downstream needs to read or edit the vectors: a laser cutter, a vector editor, a web page. Pick PDF when a person needs to read or print the drawing, because a PDF is a paginated sheet that opens the same way everywhere. Both come from the same converter, so it costs nothing to produce both.
No account, no card, about fifteen seconds.
