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Converting Autocad DXF to Microsoft XAML

Anyone got a good and preferably cheap and easy way to do this? The closest I got was to save a file to .SVG and use Inkscape to convert it to XAML. All lines and such converted nicely, but all the text was just a pile of text on top of the document. I also tried importing the DXF to Adobe Illustrator and using Mike Swansons AI to XAM...

Reading .DXF files

Does anyone know of source code, ideally in C# or similar, for reading .DXF files (as used by AutoCAD etc)? If not code, then tables showing the various codes (elements / blocks / etc) and their meanings? I am writing a reader myself, and have dead tree documentation detailing the format, but am trying to avoid writing e.g. a converter ...

Export to dxf from Google Sketchup

How can I write text entities to a dxf file? I found a script that can export Sketchup drawings to dxf files, unfortunately it was ignoring layers and text. I fixed it so it outputs the proper layer, but I cannot figure out how to get it to output the text. I have it to the point where it pops up a message when it comes across a text ...

convert dynamic drawing page in Flash into .dxf or .dwg format

Hi , I want to convert my dynamic Drawing (that I created in a Flash Dialog using AS 3) into the .DXF and .DWG format.Is there any way by which I can give the export functionality on the flash page so that the dynamic drawing that created in flash code will export into .DXF and .DWG format. Please Help Thanks, Simon ...

Is it possible to add transparent blocks in a DXF-File?

Is it possible to add transparent blocks in a DXF-File? I browsed through the DXF-Reference without finding much. I am currently using the OpenCascade Data Exchange framework XDE, in C++ ...

Serve DXF (and other types) files in IIS

I've got a problem with one of the pages within a website. This page will serve images according to the selection a user makes like PDF, GIF, DWG and.. DXF I understand why PDF and GIF will attempt to open in a browser, but the DXF files will (using firefox and chrome) try to open inside the browser window too - unsuccesfully, but attemp...

Is there a pure java library for converting DXF to PNG ?

Need to convert DXF files to PNG. Found a library called kabeja -- http://kabeja.sourceforge.net/ The conversion however is limited. It does not work with fill patterns. Any better tools? ...

autocad dxf files displayed in opengl/opengl es

Hey, I'm wondering if there is a way to extract the necessary data out of an autocad .dxf file, so I can visualize the structure in opengl? I've found some old cold snippets for windows written in cpp but since the standard changes I assume 15 yr old code is a little outdated. Also, there is a book about the .dxf file standard but it'...

svg 2 dxf conversion

I would like to know where I can find a reliable tool/library for conversion of svg to dxf. In between formats are also allowed as long as the dxf output is an exact replica of the svg. So that means conversion of the paths (and in particular bezier curves and arcs). I've looked at the svg2dxf export in inkscape but that's cutting corne...

Can you access the same data on a DXF as on a PDF version of the DXF?

I am searching for info regarding the technical limitations of the PDF vis a vis DXF for programming purposes. I need to know whether there are operations or data embedded within the DXF that cannot be accessed via the PDF standard. Any guidance is appreciated. ...

Getting Entity data from Autocad

This is a two part question. 1) Is there any way to get a csv file of all the entity data, including xdata, for an autocad dwg, either using autocad or some other method? 2) Is there an easy way to parse a autocad dxf file to get the entity data into a csv file? ...