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dxf-rs

A rust crate for reading and writing DXF CAD files.

Examples

Please see the examples/ directory in this repo.

Documentation

See the documentation here on docs.rs.

Integration tests

There are some integration/interop tests under src/misc_tests/integration.rs. They currently only run on Windows when the ODA File Converter tool has been installed from the Open Design Alliance. The tool can be found here.

DXF Reference

Since I don't want to fall afoul of Autodesk's lawyers, this repo can't include the actual DXF documentation. It can, however contain links to the official documents that I've been able to scrape together. For most scenarios the 2014 documentation should suffice, but all other versions are included here for backwards compatibility and reference between versions.

R10 (non-Autodesk source)

R11 (differences between R10 and R11)

R12 (non-Autodesk source)

R13 (self-extracting 16-bit executable)

2007 (Autodesk's link erroneously points to the R2008 documentation)

Many of these links were compiled from the archive.org May 9, 2013 snapshot of http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=12272454&linkID=10809853

The R2018 spec can be downloaded for offline use via the command:

wget -r -k -L -e robots=off http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/AutoCAD-DXF/files/GUID-235B22E0-A567-4CF6-92D3-38A2306D73F3.htm

and a simple launch page can be added via:

echo "<html><meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0; url=files/GUID-235B22E0-A567-4CF6-92D3-38A2306D73F3.htm' /></html>" > help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/AutoCAD-DXF/index.html

Dependencies

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