VectorDraw Drawing Engine
format capabilities
Current version 6
Basic Format capabilities of VDF engine
| 2D Drawings | 3D Drawings |
| Layers | Layouts and Viewports |
| Text styles (SHX, TTF) | Clipping Sections |
| Blocks, Inserts and Attributes | Render, Hide and Shade |
| Print, Print Preview and multiple page print jobs | Materials |
| Unlimited Undo | Lights |
| Line types (LineType object) and custom LineTypes | MultiText and simple Text objects |
| Support WMF, EMF formats | Real transformations with vdMatrix object |
| Images (BMP, TIFF, GIF, JPG, PNG, TGA) | Linear and Angular units |
| Hyperlinks and Tooltips | Hatching |
| Asynchronous opening | External Reference Drawings |
| Extended Data (XProperties) | 3D Orbit |
| Zoom and Pan | 3D Views |
| Filter object | UCS |
| Built in formats (VDML, VDCL) | Custom Objects and Custom Actions |
| Ability to merge the XREF's (external references) entities and its dependent symbols as part of the current drawing. | Asymmetrical tolerances in dimensions and more Dimension Overwrite values and formatted dimension texts. |
| Image Definition Object | TrueColor Support |
| Native DXF Import/Export | Native Export to PDF and SVG |
| Hatch Pattern object with new Hatch dialog for the predefined hatch patterns. | Exported constants values for easier management of Vectordraw objects and programming. |
| Supported formats DWG up to version 2007, DGN version 8, DWF formats (using the VectorDraw File Converter utility) | |
Primitive Drawing Entities
| Arc | 3DFace |
| Attributes | PolyFace |
| Circle | PolyHatch |
| Dimension | Viewport |
| Ellipse | Image |
| Insert | Line |
| Point | PolyLine |
| Custom Objects |
GroundSurface |
| Rectangle | Text & MultiText |
| Construction Lines |
3D capabilities
| Rendering types : | Wire 2D, Wire 3D, Hide, Shade, Shade On, Render (applying materials & lights) | ||
| Views : | Perspective, Orthogonal | ||
| Other : | Lights, 3D section clipping, Transparency, Multi User coordinate system | ||