Sometimes you don’t have Archicad. Maybe you are a civil engineer sending a base file to an architect, or you are a facilities manager trying to view a file. You need a lightweight tool.
Depending on whether you need a background reference or a fully editable 3D model, there are several ways to bring your DWG data into ArchiCAD: dwg to pln - Graphisoft Community dwg to pln converter
: Go to File > Open . This creates a brand new ArchiCAD project directly from the DWG file. Sometimes you don’t have Archicad
: Go to File > Interoperability > Merge . This allows you to bring the DWG content into an existing ArchiCAD project. dwg to pln converter