Drawing Interchange Format (DXF)

DXF (Drawing Interchange Format) was first introduced by AutoDesk AutoCAD, and is one of the most widely used CAD/CAM/CAE applications in the world. DXF is very popular and is supported by most 3D formats on PC platforms.

A DXF file is an ASCII file containing 2D and 3D components representing a drawing. Those components are known as Entities. The DXF file can represent almost any CAD drawing using those entities, and can connect a group of entities together (such as windows, doors, etc.) and use them later in the file. The DXF file has seen many changes through the years, from version 2.6 to the latest release version 14. However, the latest release of AutoCAD still manages to open files created with any of the earlier versions.

LEADTOOLS ePrint Professional supports all current variations of the DXF format (versions 2.6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14).

Users can save a DXF file to any file format supported by LEADTOOLS ePrint Professional.

DXF format supports saving with the following versions:

R12: Create DXF format (version 12). Note that this version doesn't support saving raster images.
R13: Create DXF format (version 13) with support saving raster images inside.
Tiff DXF: DXF (version 13) will be saved in a multi-page TIFF file.

When DXF files are rasterized, they are 24 BPP.

The following table indicates which objects LEADTOOLS ePrint Professional can save:

Object:	Save:
Arc	Supported
Attdef	Not Supported
Attrib	Not Supported
Circle	Supported
Clone	Supported
Ellipse	Supported
Elliptical Arc	Not Supported
Insert	Not Supported
Leader	Not Supported
Lines	Supported
Mtext	Supported
Polygons	Supported
PolyLine	Supported
Raster	Not Supported
Solid	Not Supported
Spline	Not Supported
Text	Supported
Tolerance	Not Supported
Vertex	Supported
WpolyLine	Not Supported
3Dface	Not Supported