Anyone know of a free AutoCAD Viewer component?

[Jenner]

My company has 2 CAD systems, legacy AutoCAD garbage and ProEngineer for 3D. Oddly, PTC has a free ActiveX control that allows you to display their filetypes in web pages, .NET, or whatever...

AutoDesk does not (as far as I know). Does anyone know of a simple, no strings attached free DWG file viewer component I can embed in a .NET project? I'm making a simple engineering management program and while showing the part or it's drawing is a nice feature and works fine for our high end CAD platform, it would be nice if I could include support for the other 20% of our parts too.

I don't care if it's .NET or COM, as long as you can view, zoom, and pan DWG files without some annoying popup or watermark stamped all over the background.

[toecutter]

omg

I am trying to make a app to work with the Free DWG Viewer

I have managed to add a reference to the Free DWG Viewer but have no idea what to do next.

If you have any luck please post a example to get me going.

http://www.opendesign.com/guestfiles

OpenDWG® Toolkit Libraries (Legacy)

OpenDWG Toolkit enables you to write C or C++ language programs that read and write DWG and DXF files outside of Autodesk® AutoCAD®, thus greatly improving the speed and convenience of processes utilizing information contained within DWG files. The following platforms are supported:
DEC Alpha NT IBM RS/6000 AIX Sun Solaris 1
DEC Alpha VMS Linux Sun Solaris 2
DEC Alpha Unix Macintosh Microsoft Windows
HP 700 Series, HP/UX Silicon Graphics

regards

toe

[abhijit]

My company has 2 CAD systems, legacy AutoCAD garbage and ProEngineer for 3D. Oddly, PTC has a free ActiveX control that allows you to display their filetypes in web pages, .NET, or whatever...

AutoDesk does not (as far as I know). Does anyone know of a simple, no strings attached free DWG file viewer component I can embed in a .NET project? I'm making a simple engineering management program and while showing the part or it's drawing is a nice feature and works fine for our high end CAD platform, it would be nice if I could include support for the other 20% of our parts too.

I don't care if it's .NET or COM, as long as you can view, zoom, and pan DWG files without some annoying popup or watermark stamped all over the background.

Jenner,
Can you get the autocad files to covert to DXF format?

[toecutter]

Jenner,
Can you get the autocad files to covert to DXF format?

Autocad can save as a DXF, well 2002 lite can

Any body know how to convert a PDF to a DWG or DXF while where on the page?

regards

toe