Aspose.CAD 24.11.0

CAD/BIM Drawing Documents Processing .NET API

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Aspose.CAD for .NET is a standalone class library to enhance ASP.NET, Web API, Desktop and other .NET and .Net Core applications to process & render CAD drawings without requiring AutoCAD or any other rendering workflow. The CAD Class Library allows high quality conversion of DWG, DWF, DWFX, DWT, DGN, STL, DXB, OBJ, CF2, IGES(IGS), IFC, PLT, COLLADA(DAE), STEP(STP), CGM, U3D, 3DS and DXF files, layouts, and layers to PDF & raster image formats.

CAD File Processing Features

• Supports the latest versions of DWG, DWF, DWFx, DWT, DGN, STL, OBJ, CF2, IGES(IGS), IFC, DXB, PLT, COLLADA(DAE), STEP(STP), U3D, 3DS & DXF formats.
• Convert CAD to PDF.
• Convert CAD to images.
• Track files processing progress.
• Manipulate drawing entities and blocks.
• Select and convert specific layouts of CAD drawings.
• Select and convert specific layers of CAD drawings.
• Adjust CAD drawing size before rendering.

New Features & Enhancements

• Vectorization of bitmap drawings (Paper to CAD)
• Ability to export to the OBJ file format.
• Save any CAD or BIM format drawing to DWG or DXF
• Support of SHX files
• Support for HoloLens 2.
• Support for the AutoCAD Plotter Configuration (PC3) files.

Please visit Aspose.CAD for .NET 24.11 - Release Notes for the detailed notes.

Functionality

• Provides comprehensive document import and export with 35+ supported file formats. This allows developers to convert documents from one file format to another. For example, you can convert DXF to DWG and DWG to DXF documents with professional quality.
• Contains a flexible mechanism for working with files, namely: reading, updating and writing, and also provides the ability to create CAD files separately.
• Provides the ability to work with text, extract all text from an drawing or adjust it by changing position, size and visibility, as well as work with fonts separately
• Provides a flexible variety of capabilities, such as adjusting drawing element line lengths, exporting these components to multiple PNG files, removing certain entities and easily editing a large number of distinct entities and more.. Thanks to its extensive toolkit, users may precisely and customise their images and designs.
• Provides the ability to work with 3D files, including change the observation point and supports mtl files when exporting files to OBJ format.
• Provides the ability to insert DXF/DWG drawings into DWG/DXF.

To become familiar with the most popular Aspose.CAD functionality, please have a look at our free online applications.

Supported Platforms

You possess the ability to deploy a wide range of applications in diverse cloud environments, leveraging the flexibility and scalability offered by various cloud platforms to meet your specific needs.

Cross-language references

Supported programming languages

The possibility of processing documents in different programming languages is provided. You can see examples of converting a drawing to JavaScript, .NET, Python and Java, or get more language-specific information from one of the links below:

• .NET
  • Blazor
  • ASP.NET
  • HoloLens
  • Unity
• Python
• Java
• JavaScript
• JasperReports

Aspose.CAD can be ported to WebAssembly(wasm) and used as a module in JavaScript.

For more detailed information about the Aspose.CAD product with demonstrations of the library's capabilities for various programming languages, please visit the links below:

• .NET
• JavaScript
• Python
• Java
• JasperReports

Web frameworks

With Aspose.CAD you can also create applications using various web frameworks. To learn how to work with different frameworks, select the one you are interested in and follow the links below:

• Angular
• React
• Vue

Read CAD and BIM Formats

AutoCAD: DWG, DWT, DXF, PC3 MicroStation: DGN Other: STL, DXB, IGES, DWF, DWFX, DAE, STP, STEP, CF2, IFC, PLT, HPGL, U3D, 3DS

Save and publish drawings As

Fixed Layout: PDF Vector Images SVG, WMF, EMF, HTML5, CGM Raster Images: PNG, BMP, DIB, TIFF, TIF, JPEG, GIF, JPG, JPE, JIF, JFIF, PSD, WEBP, DCM, DICOM, JP2, J2K, JPF, JPM, JPG2, J2C, JPC, JPX, MJ2, DJVU

Read & Write

CAD: DXF, DWF, DWFX, FBX, STP, STEP Raster Images: PNG, BMP, DIB, TIFF, TIF, JPEG, GIF, PSD, JPG, JPE, JIF, JFIF, WEBP, DCM, DICOM, JP2, J2K, JPF, JPM, JPG2, J2C, JPC, JPX, MJ2 , DJVU Vector Images SVG, CGM The Advanced Visualizer: OBJ, GLB, GLTF (Write features are partially supported.)

Platform Independence

Aspose.CAD for .NET supports .NET framework (ASP.NET applications & Windows applications) as well as .NET Core. It supports any 32-bit or 64-bit operating system where .NET or Mono framework is installed, this includes but is not limited to, Microsoft Windows desktop (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10), Microsoft Windows Server (2003, 2008, 2012), Microsoft Azure, Linux (Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS, and others), and Mac OS X.

Getting Started with Aspose.CAD for .NET

Are you ready to give Aspose.CAD for .NET a try? Simply execute Install-Package Aspose.CAD from Package Manager Console in Visual Studio to fetch the NuGet package. If you already have Aspose.CAD for .NET and want to upgrade the version, please execute Update-Package Aspose.CAD to get the latest version.

Add Watermark to CAD using C# Code

You can execute below code snippet to see how the API performs in your environment or check the GitHub Repository for other common usage scenarios.

CadText text = new CadText();
text.DefaultValue = "Watermark text";
text.TextHeight = 40;
text.FirstAlignment = new Cad3DPoint(300, 40);

Export of DWG to PDF with drawing color change using C#

Image img = Image.Load("Drawing.dwg");
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

var rasterizationOptions = new CadRasterizationOptions();
rasterizationOptions.PageWidth = 500;
rasterizationOptions.PageHeight = 500;
rasterizationOptions.Layouts = new string[] { "Model" };
rasterizationOptions.DrawColor = Color.Red;

var pdfOptions = new PdfOptions();
pdfOptions.VectorRasterizationOptions = rasterizationOptions;

img.Save("output.pdf", pdfOptions);

Generate DXF drawing from scratch and its conversion to PNG using C#

DxfImage img = new DxfImage();

CadLine line = new CadLine(new Cad3DPoint(0, 0, 0), new Cad3DPoint(100, 100, 100));
img.AddEntity(line);

CadText text = new CadText();
text.FirstAlignment = new Cad3DPoint(0, -50, 0);
text.TextHeight = 10;
text.DefaultValue = "text value";
img.AddEntity(circle);

CadCircle circle = new CadCircle(new Cad3DPoint(50, 0), 10);
img.AddEntity(circle);

var rasterizationOptions = new CadRasterizationOptions();
rasterizationOptions.PageWidth = 256;
rasterizationOptions.PageHeight = 256;

var pngOptions = new PngOptions();
pngOptions.VectorRasterizationOptions = rasterizationOptions;

img.Save(ms, pngOptions);

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