Supported File Formats

Supported File Formats

The following table indicates the file formats that Aspose.CAD for .NET can load and Save.

Format Description Load Save Remarks
DWG AutoCAD Drawing Database File tick   - 3D Solids (Conic, Sphere, Torus, Cylinder, Box, Wedge)
- Wired models.
- Basic view cube positions.
- 3D Faces.
DXF Drawing Exchange Format File tick tick (Partially Supported) - 3D Solids (Conic, Sphere, Torus, Cylinder, Box, Wedge)
- Wired models.
- Basic view cube positions.
- 3D Faces.
- Surfaces, Meshes
DGN MicroStation Design File tick   - 3D Solids (Conic, Sphere, Torus, Cylinder, Box, Wedge)
- Surfaces, Meshes
IFC Industry Foundation Classes File tick    
FBX FBX, FilmBox, is a popular 3D file format tick    
STP An STP file is a 3D CAD file used for exchange of product data between CAD and CAM applications. tick    
IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification tick    
STL Stereolithography File tick    
DWT AutoCAD Drawing Template tick    
PLT HPGL Plot File tick    
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a web-friendly vector file format tick    
DWF Design Web Format tick    
3DS A file with .3ds extension represents 3D Sudio (DOS) mesh file format used by Autodesk 3D Studio tick    
DXB DXB is the binary version of a .DXF file, which is text-based tick    
DWFx DWFx is the newest version of the DWF file format.
DWFx is based on the XML Paper Specification (XPS)
tick    
CF2 Common File Format File tick    
COLLADA Digital Asset Exchange file format tick    
OBJ 3D Object File tick    
PDF Portable Document Format   tick  
TIFF Saves the document as TIFF Image   tick  
JPEG Saves the document in JPEG Format   tick  
PNG Saves the document in PNG Format   tick  
GIF Saves the document in GIF Format   tick  
BMP Saves the document in BMP Format   tick  

Not yet supported

  • Shadows, lights, materials, additional cameras, etc.
  • No support for naturally flat entities mixed with 3D entities in the same drawing.
  • No support for entities building like intersected entities, united entities and etc.