Take vector artwork all the way to a native DWG: import the SVG at a real drawing scale, then write r2000 DWG that opens in every AutoCAD since 2000. Two steps, because the scale decision is worth making properly.
Open app.caddillo.com and pick your .svg. Parsing happens in the browser, so the artwork stays on your machine at this stage — only the final DWG write touches a server.
SVG carries no real-world units, so you decide what one unit means. Use a preset (1:1, 96 DPI, 72 DPI, millimetres) or import and calibrate: click across a distance you know, type the true dimension, and the drawing rescales to match.
The geometry is written to DXF in the browser and converted to a native r2000 DWG. That needs a free account — no card — because writing DWG is the one metered direction. You get a real binary DWG back.
Nobody converts to DWG for technical reasons — DXF carries the same geometry and is easier to work with. People convert to DWG because the shop, the client or the reviewer on the other end will only take DWG. This page is for satisfying that requirement without redrawing the artwork.
Architecture and fabrication shops frequently accept nothing else. Your logo, site outline or panel artwork has to arrive as DWG regardless of how it was drawn.
Signage packages, wayfinding and storefront details all start as vector brand assets and end up inside an architectural DWG set.
The recipient will open it, xref it, and never think about where it came from. That is the point — DWG makes the file look native on their end.
If everything else in the handover is DWG, the one SVG-derived file should be too. Mixed formats in an archive create questions later.
A refused DWG write does not cost you an export from your free quota, and the DXF fallback is one menu item away.
The reverse trip — free, one click, no account.
Same import, free export, no fidelity boundary.
Already have a DXF? Go straight to the write path.
Have a raster image rather than an SVG? Resize or convert it first at imageinseconds.com — free, browser-side, nothing uploaded.
Open app.caddillo.com, choose File ▸ Import SVG, set the scale, then choose File ▸ Export DWG. The import and everything you do in the editor runs locally; only the final DWG write goes through CADdillo’s converter, because there is no practical in-browser DWG codec. That last step needs a free account with no card attached.
Because a drop zone cannot answer the scale question, and scale is not a detail here — it decides whether the finished part is the right size. SVG describes shapes in abstract units; DWG describes them in millimetres or inches. A one-click tool has to guess, and the usual guess of 96 DPI is wrong often enough to be dangerous. Going through the editor takes about thirty seconds longer and removes the guess entirely.
DXF unless someone specifically asked for DWG. A modern DXF opens natively in every AutoCAD and every major CAD package, needs no account here, and has no fidelity boundary to trip. DWG is the right answer when the receiving end has a DWG-only pipeline or simply insists — which is common enough that this page exists. Both carry the same geometry.
r2000, and deliberately so. Newer DWG write support in the available open encoder is incomplete and can produce subtly corrupt files, which is a far worse outcome than an older version number — corruption may not surface until someone is deep into editing the drawing. r2000 opens cleanly in AutoCAD 2000 through current releases, BricsCAD, DraftSight and ZWCAD.
It will if you got the scale right, which is the step worth double-checking. After import, measure a known feature in the editor and confirm it reads the dimension you expect before you export. If you are cutting on a CNC router rather than handing the file to someone, consider skipping DWG entirely and exporting G-code directly — that path carries real units end to end and removes a format hop where scale can be lost.
The SVG is never uploaded — it is parsed and edited entirely in your browser. The DWG export step does send geometry to the converter, since binary DWG cannot be written client-side, and that upload plus the DWG it produced are deleted immediately after the response.
