In AutoCAD: Type DXFOUT → Save as .dxf .
XML is a text-based, hierarchical markup language. It does not store visual geometry directly. Instead, it stores: convert dwg to xml
# Add more entity types (CIRCLE, TEXT, etc.) as needed In AutoCAD: Type DXFOUT → Save as
from osgeo import ogr import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET convert dwg to xml
driver = ogr.GetDriverByName("DWG") data_source = driver.Open("drawing.dwg", 0) layer = data_source.GetLayer(0)
DWG (short for drawing) is a binary file format. It contains: