DXF parser for node/browser.
Uses some ES6 features (classes, let, const, arrows). If you need to use this library in a browser without support for these features, you can use Webpack + Babel to package it.
V2.0 is a complete rewrite from the first attempt to write it in a SAX style, which wasn't really appropriate for a document with nested references (e.g inserts referencing blocks, nested inserts).
At this point in time, the important geometric entities are supported, but notably:
- MTEXT
- DIMENSION
- STYLE
and some others are parsed, but are not supported for SVG rendering (see section below on SVG rendering)
The initial aim of this library was to support rendering of the main geometric components, not dimensions, text, hatches and styles. There is a mechanism for converting the parsed entities to SVG, but they are all converted to polylines, and if you look at the resulting SVG files when running the functional tests, you will see that all entities are rendered as paths.
$ gulp test
will execute the unit tests and functional tests, which generate SVGs for reference DXF files. You can view these SVGs (located in test/functional/output) in a browser or other SVG viewer to see what is supported.
Please refer to the functional tests in test/functional/ to understand how this library can be used.