DWG workmode is a working environment within OpenBuildings™ Station Designer specifically adapted to the editing and reviewing of DWG files. OpenBuildings™ Station Designer natively reads and writes both the OpenBuildings™ Station Designer DGN file format and the DWG file format thus enabling less data loss from sharing. You can also directly reference a DWG file from a OpenBuildings™ Station Designer DGN file.

When you open a DWG file, various OpenBuildings™ Station Designer tools are restricted to ensure compatibility with the DWG format. When you are required to create DGN files that are DWG compatible, you can turn on DWG workmode . In both cases OpenBuildings™ Station Designer restricts its tools to create only elements that are compatible with the DWG format.

The main purpose of the DWG workmode is to ensure that no DWG-incompatible features are added to the DWG file while editing it in OpenBuildings™ Station Designer. This is done by restraining access to certain tools and features of OpenBuildings™ Station Designer that remain unsupported in AutoCAD.