The following paragraphs are for this people who need the old
java 1.0.2 version of the DXF Viewer for compatibility reasons.
DXF Viewer Applet
What's DXF
You should probably know about DXF to be able to make some use
of a viewer for it but here it goes:
DXF is a widely used file format for exchanging 3D CAD data.
It's not an open format but owned by AutoDesk who used it for
their program AutoCAD. With every new version of AutoCAD the
definition of DXF is changed but nevertheless there are
zillions of programs which are capable of reading and writing
some form of DXF.
DXF Viewer
To learn Java I decided to implement a viewer for DXF files.
The reason for this was that I am an experienced programmer
and so wanted to start with a non-trivial task (not this
HelloWorld.java stuff) and I did already know DXF from other
projects.
The viewer runs as an applet and a stand-alone program. It
understands the DXF version shipped with AutoCAD 12 (which is
some sort of standard). It does not show texts because with the
necessary font information it would grew to big.
Test
You can test the applet on
this page but
please read the warning first.
WARNING
DXF files are very redundant and therefore always BIG.
Clicking on the given link tries to show you a 149288 Bytes DXF
file with about 100 kBytes of Java classes.
Get the viewer
You can download the viewer as a zipped class archive,
which you can directly append to your CLASSPATH.
Then you can use the viewer as an application with
java DxfViewer filename.dxf
or as an applet (like shown on the test page).
Download dxfview.zip (100k) via http
Download dxfview.zip (100k) via ftp
Download dxfview.zip.gz (40k) via http
Download dxfview.zip.gz (40k) via ftp
Source code
If you are interested in the source code you can ask
me
for it by
email. I probably will it send it to you but I want to know
where it goes.
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