Run the Markup manager (Ctrl+7) and switch to the DWF geometry (Alt+4). Nevertheless, you can try the ICDWFIN or the DWF Importer or the DWF to DWG Converter to read your DWFs back into AutoCAD.ĭWF files with markups from DWF Composer ( Design Review) can be read/displayed (round-trip) in AutoCAD/ ADT/Map (2005+) and Revit (8+). DWF is a vector format containing only 'low-intelligence' (plotting) entities so it cannot be fully recovered (changed) back to a standard DWG drawing. And like you can digitize/vectorize/scan a paper drawing, you can also convert/recover DWF files back to DWG (using third party utilities) - but in both cases you will loose substantial amount of information, structure and precision of the original drawing.īoth DWF/ DWFx and PDF were meant to be used as reference (read-only, unchangeable) drawings - you can underlay them directly in AutoCAD (like xrefs), switch their layers, etc.Ĭonversion to the editable DWG format is not an intended operation with DWF files. DWF files back to the DWG format?ĭWF is an 'digital plot' file.
