Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I am hope to write a C# application take takes some numbers as input and export in a format that can ultimately be editable as dwg files.
I read that exporting directly to dwg is difficult, but I can accept if I can export to imtermediate format which autocad can open and subsequently convert natively and edit as autocad dwg.
side note: I am generating the “drawing” as vectors and points with OpenTK on winforms.
Any solutions?
My suggestion is to write to DXF format, witch is an ASCII text file. AutoCAD, as well as other CAD software read it natively.
DWG is a proprietary binary format, used by AutoCAD only (well, not exactly, there are other software that can write DWG format that is compatible to AutoCAD dwg).
EPS is not supported in AutoCAD, and even if there were a way to import it, you would miss many DWG features (line types, layers, blocks, etc.)
The DXF reference is available on:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=12272454&linkID=10809853