topic Re: File formats used in design in AutoCAD Forum

File formats used in design

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 06:31:06 GMT

What is the file formats used in design?

Re: File formats used in design

essam-salah — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 06:48:25 GMT

@Anonymous

what do you mean , more details plz

Betreff: File formats used in design

cadffm — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 09:37:43 GMT

1. The best format is the native format of used programversion.

2. The fileformat you can see after you opened a file, in textscreen [F2]

Open the dwg/dxf with a texteditor, in the first two lines you find the formatversion as "ACnnnn" code.

For example, AC1032 is formatversion 2018.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/drawing-version-codes-for-autocad.html

Or you need a plugin for windows to see the version in windows explorer and other programs

Re: File formats used in design

beyoungjr — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 17:23:25 GMT

Your question has a very broad answer. You can find a very comprehensive list of CAD file formats by extension >here<.

The native AutoCAD file extension is .dwg but this database extension gets revised every few years. You may choose a target version of the .dwg file to save when working with AutoCAD.

The Drafix extension .dxf that is also very common with AutoCAD is a very broadly used extension for sharing AutoCAD files with other application platforms.

If you are seeking more specific information please state the question more specifically.

Hope this helps,

Blaine

Re: File formats used in design

beyoungjr — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:30:20 GMT

Correction...

The .dxf file extension is not a format bound to Drafix, as I mistakenly wrote prior, but instead is fully native to AutoCAD since 1982.

See >here< for a brief history if interested.

Blaine