Saving to DWG format

dland4000 · Post by **dland4000** » 17 Apr 2009, 08:56

Does CAD Import .NET support modifying the block attributes in a dwg file and then saving the changes into a new dwg file? I see that there is a SaveToFile method in the DWGImage class but it appears to only save formats like JPEG and BMP. Can you save the DWGImage to dwg format?

Thanks,
Dave

Post by **support** » 17 Apr 2009, 17:39

Hello Dave,

CAD Import .NET allows saving to DXF file format. It is possible to load DWG file, to make necessary changes and to save changed file to DXF.

Sergey.

dland4000 · Post by **dland4000** » 17 Apr 2009, 18:16

Thanks Sergey. Does tool have any support for converting DXF to DWG? I have found some GUI based tools that do that.

Post by **support** » 20 Apr 2009, 15:09

Hello,

DXF is opened Autodesk format which is 100% compatible with AutoCAD and most of other CAD applications. It stores the same information about CAD Entities (coordinates, layers, blocks, attributes, .. all) as DWG format and made specially for application exchange purposes (DXF: Drawing eXchange Format). DXF format, in contrast to DWG, has the same structure in different versions of AutoCAD wich is convenient when it is needed in older AutoCAD versions. Also there are many DWG format versions which have completely different file structure. AutoDesk applications warn when opening DWG files created by other programms. DXF export allows to give 100% compatibility without dwg versions problems.

Sergey.

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