Welcome to the home of Hachisoft Corporation's hsCADView product. This powerful CAD viewer allows quick visualization and measurement of intricate CAD drawings in both 2D and 3D.

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hsCADView Features

hsCADView offers many product features that allow you interact with CAD drawings without needing a full design editor. These features are discussed in general on this page, and more specifically in the links that follow. hsCADView's high-level features include:

View Drawings

• Import from most standard CAD File Formats (DWG, DXF, DWF)
• Display 2D and/or 3D information
• Render with a variety of 3D Viewing modes
• Zoom, Rotate, Pan, and Snap within a Drawing (2D and 3D)
• Manage multiple views of a Drawing with Viewports
• Preview both custom Drawing Layouts, and the Drawing Modelspace

Print Drawings

• Map difficult to print colors with Plotstyles
• Preview a print job before you waste your ink
• Print both custom Drawing Layouts, and the Drawing Modelspace

Convert Drawings

• To any supported Drawing file types (and all versions!). Make an old Drawing new, or a new Drawing old.
• To web formats such as PDF, DWF, SVG, and Images
• To an email attachment

Measure Drawings

• Use a convenient tool to measure distance in 2D and/or 3D
• Measure angles between connected lines
• Measure area of figures that lie on a plane (regular polygons)

Convenience

• Maximize screen space with tabbed viewing

Viewable Formats

The following industry-standard CAD drawing file types are supported in hsCADView through the use of the Open DWG standard:

• DXF - Drawing eXchange Format
  
  • Versions (r9, r10, r12, r13, r14, r15, r18, r21(2007))
• DWG - DraWinG
  
  • Versions (r9, r10, r12, r13, r14, r15, r18, r21(2007))
• DXB - Drawing eXchange Binary
  
  • Versions (r9, r10, r12, r13, r14, r15, r18, r21(2007))
• DWF - Design Web Format
  
  • Versions (v4.2, v5.5, v6.0)
  • Formats (3D, Compressed Binary, Uncompressed Binary, Zipped ASCII Encoded 2D Stream, ASCII)

In addition, hsCADView also provides the ability to convert both between these formats and between different versions and types of these formats.

Exportable Formats

The following file formats may also be generated from a drawing:

• BMP - Windows Bitmap File
• PDF - Portable Document Format
• SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics

Other Formats

In order to view and print drawings effectively, hsCADView supports the (readonly) loading of plot style files:

• STB: Plot Style Table
• CTB: Color-dependent Plot Style Table