.dwg files

haha

That's standard autocad 2D.

Almost any CAD program will open that.

CorelDraw? Libre Office Draw?

Autodesk do a free DWG viewer:

Ok. I'll have a look. Ta.

Hmm. I tried the Autodesk site. Signed up and loaded the data but it didn't seem able to send it back.

I need to fix this display driver issue first.

Thanks

QCad is also good

Well, I've never heard of them either. Brian

On 18 Oct 2023, Tim Lamb wrote

If you just want to view rather than edit them, you can use XNView -- open source, freeware for private or educational use, licenced for corporate use (payable on an honour system). It handles DWG files (as well as pretty well everything else),and probably lets you convert them to other formats:

-- being a well-behaved, open source program -- as a free-standing program (Zip Win 64bit). With the latter, you park the folder wherever you like on your computer, and open the executable (xnviewmp.exe).

I'm very fond of standalone/non-"installed" programs...

On 19 Oct 2023, HVS wrote

Should also have mentioned that if that doesn't work, there's also DWGSee:

(The architects I work with almost invariably send me .pdf copies of drawings, as I don't need the CAD layers.)

or perhaps for Tim the Old Version (1.5.3) for Win 32 bit

On 19 Oct 2023, Robin wrote

Very good point -- I shoulda tot a dat.

(Apologies, Tim)

nanoCAD have a free (quite old) version available, you need to ask for a licence, but it doesn't expire, it does all the 2D CAD stuff in a very autoCAD style ... if you just want to view rather than edit, there's probably easier ways.

NanoCAD? There is a free version of that, although it may require the architect to save in a slightly older .dwg format.

If you only want to look at the drawings, then Autodesk do their own free, downloadable reader.