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LibreDWG

LibreDWG reads and writes AutoCAD DWG documents through a C library and command-line tools. It provides DWG inspection, text search, layer listing and conversion to DXF, JSON, GeoJSON, SVG and PostScript. The project maintains corrections to an ODA DWG specification and records version-specific reader and writer gaps.

Targets: App
Category: Binary analysis libraries
Relationship: Foundation tool
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09

Stars: 1.7k
Last commit: 2026-11-09
Language: C
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Building from Git requires a C99 compiler, make, autoconf, automake and libtool.
Limits: Some advanced R2010+ objects are skipped; writing R2007 and R2010–R2018 files has stated limitations.
License: GPL-3.0-or-later license.

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BibTeX

@misc{libredwg,
  title = {{LibreDWG}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg}},
  url = {https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg},
  urldate = {2026-11-09},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/libredwg/}}
}

Plain text

LibreDWG. https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg (accessed 2026-11-09). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/libredwg/

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README GitHub · LibreDWG/libredwg · Revision c184dd0