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A new version of Lx-Viewer has been released, which has added features.

Just to recap: LX-Viewer is a program that will allow you to open, view and print DWG or DXF files, typically used in AutoCAD related technical drafting. You may zoom and pan the drawing as you would in AutoCAD. Files can be saved to DWG or DXF formats from AutoCAD version 2.5 to 2000 plus BMP and PNG formats

Major changes are:
Addition of batch plotting feature to allow plotting (printing) of multiple files with a single command.... read more

The latest version of Lx-Viewer, 0.99e , has been released. We expect this to be one of the last releases before 1.0. Just to recap: LX-Viewer is a program that will allow you to open, view and print DWG or DXF files, typically used in AutoCAD related technical drafting. You may zoom and pan the drawing as you would in AutoCAD. Files can be saved to DWG or DXF formats from AutoCAD version 2.5 to 2000 plus BMP and PNG formats
Major changes are:... read more

Lx-Viewer 0.99d has been released. We expect this to be one of the last releases before 1.0. Just to recap: LX-Viewer is a program that will allow you to open, view and print DWG or DXF files, typically used in AutoCAD related technical drafting. You may zoom and pan the drawing as you would in AutoCAD. Files can be saved to DWG or DXF formats from AutoCAD version 2.5 to 2000 plus BMP and PNG formats... read more

The CAD file viewer and conversion utility Lx-Viewer has now been ported from Linux to Windows, it is available for download at:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lx-viewer/lx-viewer-windows-0.98a.zip?download

Typical uses included opening, viewing and printing AutoCAD DWG and DXF files and converting to different versions and file formats.

This windows port is of a stable release of the lx-viewer code but should be treated as a development version.... read more

This is the first "stable" version that uses the QT 3.0.5 and OpenDWG 2.008 libraries. Biggest new feature from 0.96 is the reporting (located under the file menu).

We have also removed the ability to save as an XPM format file and replaced it with a save to PNG format file. PNG files are very compressed where XPM are just the opposite.

There is also a reporting feature now available. The reporting can be set to open report on all drawing files in a directory using command line arguments.

Version 2.0 of our command line utility program which converts dwg files to dxf files has been released. Changes include the ability to now specify the dxf file version to be saved, and it is also no longer necessary to supply an output file name. There are now also some help files bundled with the package.

LX-Viewer version 0.96 is now available. This version fixes many bugs (particularly with metric plotting), improves the useability of several features, and adds a full layer dialog dialog control. As usual there is a pre-compiled version plus the source code version.

The newest version of the Linux Drawing Viewer has been posted [17 Mar 02]. This version now has the ability to plot drawings to scale to a Postscript or to file and also has the ability to toggle various layer states (on/off, freeze/thaw, etc).

As for the 0.92 release there are 2 versions available, one source and one compiled.