I'm looking for a light-weight AutoCAD DWG viewer. I don't want to install the 180MB TrueView just to open a DWG file every once in a long while...
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Some info from a non-user of CAD:
There is a whole bunch of CAD viewers in here.
The list doesn't include Free eDrawings Viewer.
AcadPVI Shell Extension adds the AutoCAD preview and version to the right-click context menu in Windows Explorer.
AutoCAD Version Explorer (AVE) is a stand-alone program that provides an Explorer-like interface to quickly view AutoCAD preview and version information.
Irfanview claims to view DWG files, and it's both free and small. It's a very good image viewer but I'll confess to not knowing how well it's DWG support fares, or to what version of DWG it supports.
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1+1 Thanks for this link--Irfanview looks awesome. CAD support is $USD48 because you have to buy a DLL to make the plugin usable Oct 5, 2009 at 13:56
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but in irfanview they used a third party plugin which require us to register first.– gumuruhAug 24, 2014 at 3:48
LX-Viewer is open source and light weight viewer. Not sure about windows 7 compatibility
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1The Windows version appears to be 6 years old so I'll pass for now, thanks though! Oct 5, 2009 at 14:43