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 tick  
FBX FBX, FilmBox, is a popular 3D file format tick tick  
STP An STP file is a 3D CAD file used for exchange of product data between CAD and CAM applications. tick 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 tick  
DWF Design Web Format tick tick  
3DS A file with .3ds extension represents 3D Sudio (DOS) mesh file format used by Autodesk 3D Studio tick tick  
DRC A file with .drc extension is a compressed 3D file format created with Google Draco library. tick tick  
DXB DXB is the binary version of a .DXF file, which is text-based tick    
U3D Universal 3D tick tick
DWFx DWFx is the newest version of the DWF file format.
DWFx is based on the XML Paper Specification (XPS)
tick tick  
CF2 Common File Format File tick    
COLLADA Digital Asset Exchange file format tick    
OBJ 3D Object File tick tick  
CGM Computer Graphics Metafile tick tick  
GLB Binary file format representation of 3D models tick tick  
GLTF 3D file format that stores 3D model information in JSON format tick tick  
WebP Modern raster web image file format that is based on lossless and lossy compression tick  
Emf Enhanced metafile format (EMF) stores graphical images device-independently tick  
Wmf Files with WMF extension represent Microsoft Windows Metafile (WMF) for storing vector as well as bitmap-format images data tick  
Dicom Combination of file format definition and a network communications protocol tick  
PDF Portable Document Format   tick  
PSD PSD, Photoshop Document, represents Adobe Photoshop’s native file format used for graphics designing and development tick tick  
TIFF Work with a TIFF Image tick tick  
JPEG Work with a JPEG Format tick tick  
Jpeg2000 Variant of JPEG file format and is compressed with the wavelet compression tick  
PNG Work with a PNG Format tick tick  
GIF Work with a GIF Format tick tick  
BMP Work with a BMP Format tick 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.