DXF to SVG
A drawing that stays a drawing
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- 1
Drop the DXF in
It is read on your machine and sent nowhere. Drawings are somebody’s work and often somebody’s client, which is a good reason not to hand one to a server just to look at it.
- 2
It is read the way it was drawn
Layers keep their colours. Blocks are unpacked, so doors, windows and fittings appear where they were placed and at the size they were placed. Dimensions bring their numbers, and text arrives as text.
- 3
Take the SVG
Vector out, so it scales to any size without going soft, and it opens in a browser, in Illustrator, in Inkscape or in Figma.
FAQ
- Is my drawing uploaded?
- No. The whole conversion happens on this page, on your own machine. Open the network panel and drop a file in if you would like to watch nothing leave.
- Can I give it a DWG?
- Not directly. Open it in whatever drew it and save as DXF, which every CAD program can do and which is the format made for handing a drawing to something else. DXF is documented and DWG is not, and a tool that guesses at an undocumented format is a tool that quietly gets things wrong.
- Will Chinese or Japanese labels survive?
- Yes. Older drawings store their text in one of a dozen regional encodings and say which in the file, and the ones that say the wrong thing are caught by checking the bytes rather than believing the label. Room names, tags and titles come through as words.
- Will it look exactly like it does in CAD?
- Close, not identical. The typeface will differ, because a drawing names a font file that lives on the machine that drew it, and that file is not here. Geometry, layers, colours and the text itself are what carry across.
- What if the drawing points at other files?
- You are told. A drawing can reference other drawings that were not sent with it, and those parts cannot be shown. Rather than hand back a sheet with a hole in it and say nothing, the missing pieces are named so you know to ask for them.
- What about hatches and fills?
- Solid filled regions come across. A patterned hatch, the kind that draws hundreds of little lines to mean brick or concrete, is shown as a plain tint instead of the pattern.