DXFReader ActiveX Control

DXFReader is an ActiveX component that allows viewing, manipulating and plotting direct from the AutoCAD drawing file format DXF, also known as the drawing exchange format.

DXF is an acronym for Drawing eXchange Format. DXF is an ASCII replication of the contents of a drawing file enabling the interchange of files from one CAD system to another program. DXF import/export is supported by a wide variety of applications, ranging from CAD products to word processors, desktop publishing and illustration tools. The DXF CAD format has become the defacto standard in PC based CAD industry with many other CAD systems able to read and write this format too.

With DXFReader you can also retreive every drawing information and every entity and easly perform data manipulation and/or analisys directly within your development environment.

Features

The following is a highlight of some of the major features of DXFReader:

• The ideal Control to develop engineering, surveying and industrial related software.
• DXFReader's features are familiar, intuitive, and easy to use expecially for CAD developers. In most cases, they require no code.
• Full compliant with AutoDesk DXF Reference Release 14.1.13 with display and manipulation of the following entities: 3DFACE, ARC, ATTDEF, ATTRIB, CIRCLE, DIMENSION, ELLIPSE, IMAGE, INSERT, LINE, LWPOLYLINE, MTEXT, POINT, POLYLINE including bulged polylines, meshed polylines and polyfaces, RAY, SPLINE, TEXT with truetype fonts, TRACE, XLINE.
• Display functions including Pan, Zoom (Extents, Limits, In, Out, Previous, Window, etc.)
• Full control of every entity and of every tables entry providing collection of objects representing every drawing elements. It is possible, with few instructions to retreive and process every drawing informations and add or remove any entry.
• Full control of blocks, dimensions, hatching, attribute and color using the AutoCAD Color Index with implemented default palette dialog.
• Full access to every HEADER variable of the DXF file to retreive and/or modify informations like units format, attribute mode, dimensioning parameters, extensions, limits and so on.
• Full support of background raster image with different scaling to use together vectorial drawings.
• Full resolution printing using different printing modes. It is possible to retreive and set scaling, margins, origin, reendering, rotation, and aspect ratio.
• Saving of full DXF file in different versions. It is possible to read a R14 DXF file and write it using a lower version. Saving of single DXF block, of BMP and WMF pictures.
• Redlining functions to add informations to the drawing without modifing the database.
• Reading of the only entities of a drawing to merge together other drawings changing rotation, scaling and traslation.
• Visualization of grid, axes, limits and base point.
• Full context sensitive HtmlHelp.
• Full compatible with Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0, Microsoft Excel 97, Word 97 and Access 97, Microsoft Excel2000 Word2000 and Access2000, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, Microsoft ActiveX Control Test Container.