What is a .SLDDRW file?
SLDDRW is a 2D engineering drawing from SolidWorks. Created and opened by SolidWorks.
- Did you know
- Dassault Systèmes, the French company behind CATIA, bought SolidWorks in 1997 for about 310 million dollars in stock.
- The free eDrawings viewer opens SolidWorks drawings, so suppliers and colleagues without a SolidWorks licence can still review them.
- A drawing file links back to the 3D part or assembly it documents, updating its views when that model changes.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify CAD files and read header metadata: AutoCAD DWG (DXF now opens as a 2D drawing preview - see Diagrams), SolidWorks (SLDPRT, SLDASM, plus .sldreg Settings Wizard backups - release year, settings groups and the saved registry keys - and SOLIDWORKS Visualize .svap appearances and .svpj projects, opened as the ZIP packages they are), Fusion 360 (F3D), Inventor (IPT, IAM), Rhino (3DM) and Grasshopper (GH, GHX), SketchUp (SKP), 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini, ZBrush, Maya, CATIA, Eagle, and KiCad.
- Depth of analysis
- .SLDDRW is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .SLDDRW file
- Drag a .SLDDRW file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.