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 shows you
- Open a SolidWorks part (.sldprt), assembly (.sldasm) or drawing (.slddrw). Older (pre-2015) files are OLE2 documents: Analyser reads the saved preview thumbnail and the document metadata (title, author, who last saved it and when). Files saved by SolidWorks 2015 or later are encrypted by Dassault Systemes, so they are identified but their contents cannot be read outside SolidWorks - in either case the editable Parasolid geometry stays proprietary, so export to STEP, STL or 3MF for the full 3D viewer.
- Open a .SLDDRW file
- Drag a .SLDDRW file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.
- Related formats
- .SLDPRT · .SLDASM. See all supported file types.