Layers become paint regions
Each DWG layer arrives as its own part. Walls, roof, glazing, and ground each get a layer stack of their own, so a material fill lands exactly where the drafter put the geometry.
DWG + MechaPaint
AutoCAD drawings, opened as paintable 3D models. Install one free converter and every .dwg you have is a drag-and-drop away.
WHY MECHAPAINT
Your AutoCAD models, textured for real
Architects and engineers model in AutoCAD and then need the building, the part, or the site rendered with real materials. MechaPaint opens the DWG, keeps every layer as its own paintable part, and lets you paint brick, concrete, glass, and steel as full PBR materials, then export for Unreal, Unity, Twinmotion, or Blender.
Solids, meshes, and blocks
3D faces, polyface and polygon meshes, AutoCAD MESH objects, and block references, including arrays, all open at their placed positions and at the drawing's units.
A UV layout in one click
CAD geometry has no UVs. Rebuild UVs gives the whole model a clean layout, then triplanar fills and patterns wrap materials onto it without seams.
Out to visualization
Export FBX or GLB with a full PBR texture set named for Unreal, Unity, Godot, or Blender, at real-world scale.
THE FREE CONVERTER
One download, then every DWG opens
DWG is Autodesk's own format, so MechaPaint reads it through the Open Design Alliance's free converter, the same tool Blender and FreeCAD users rely on. Install it once and MechaPaint finds it on its own. Windows, Mac, and Linux builds are all on the page.
Install
Run the installer with its defaults. MechaPaint looks in the standard places on every platform and uses the newest version it finds.
Then
Drag a .dwg onto MechaPaint. The conversion runs in the background and the drawing appears, one paintable part per layer. A drawing you have opened before opens instantly.
Also works
LibreDWG's dwg2dxf, if you already have it on your path. ODA is the one I recommend because it reads every AutoCAD release.
PIPELINE
DWG to rendered model
01
Install the converter
The free ODA File Converter, linked above. Once.
02
Open the .dwg
Drag it onto MechaPaint. Layers come in as parts.
03
Paint and export
Rebuild UVs, paint materials, export FBX or GLB for your renderer.
The drawing you drafted, with the materials you imagined.
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