ABViewer

ABViewer is a high-quality, cost-efficient multi-functional design and engineering document management application. ABViewer offers you a wide choice of professional viewing and editing tools. Support of more than 30 both raster and vector formats is provided, including AutoCAD DWG, DXF, DWF, Hewlett-Packard HPGL, PLT, HGL, CGM, SVG, TIFF, BMP, JPG, GIF etc.

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What is the most important feature of ABViewer?

A combined viewer, editor and converter?
Support for DWG, DXF, PLT, HPGL, TIFF, SVG, CGM and other industry-standard formats?
Printing of large formats (e.g. A1), on an A4 printer?
The versatility to perform all operations from design to engineering with related documentation?
An easy-to-use, fast, professional and powerful product?

The most important aspect of ABViewer is quality, quality and quality once again!

Supported formats:

AutoCAD DWG, DXF and all versions of DWF
Hewlett-Packard PLT Viewer: HPGL, HGL, HG, PRN, SPL
Scalable Vector Graphics: SVG
Computer Graphics Metafile: CGM
PS Adobe
Windows metafile: EMF, WMF
All popular raster drawings supported, including TIFF, BMP, JPG, PSD, and GIF
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Managing Portions of Drawings:

Copying portions of drawings to the clipboard in raster (BMP) and vector (EMF) formats
Printing portions of drawings
Saving portions as separate files (DXF, PDF, BMP, etc)

Editing Drawings:

ABViewer allows editing of both standard CAD formats such as DWG and DXF and vector files: PLT, SVG, CGM. The application provides all the professional editor tools and enables operations supported by ‘heavy editors’, which are usually used for design work.

Conversion Features:

Copying to the clipboard as BMP, EMF/WMF
Exporting drawings to raster formats BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF with the possibility of additional settings
Saving data vector when exporting to the vector files: PDF, DXF, PLT, SVG, CGM, SWF, WMF, EMF
! Important: Clip Rectangle allows conversion of a selected part of the drawing

Batch Conversion and Batch Print

It is now much faster and easier to print or convert a large number of files into another format. ABViewer supports simultaneous conversion and print in batch mode – with the same settings for all files.

Quick Load and Scaling Big Black-and-White Raster Files:

In ABViewer we have applied our know-how concerning 1-bit (Black-and-white) raster formats management. Huge 15-20 thousand pixel files can be loaded in less than one second. They are immediately scaled – a feature that is very convenient with TIFF scanned drawings.

Measurement Tools:

Quick and easy setting of scale factor for measurements – no additional computations needed!
Changing of lengths, areas and perimeters

CAD File Management

You can hide all text and sizes in just one mouse click
Convenient switching between files
A large number of settings for snapping to objects, used for both editing purposes and also for measurement tools
Measuring distances on a drawing (including the scale factor setting)
3D viewing and editing
Viewing with six orthogonal projections and four isometric views
Automatic rotation of the loaded CAD file by a given angle
Managing layers
Colour and black-and-white modes for CAD files
Choosing background color
DWG/DXF/SVG/CGM arcs and circles can be drawn as smooth curves and saved as metafile arcs, and ellipses as EMF, which allows scaling without loss in quality
Setting the quantity of line segments when drawing circles, arcs, ellipses and splines
Merging drawings into one file
The possibility of viewing a CAD files structure
Supporting SHX-fonts, including UNICODE and BIGFONTS.

File Search

Favorites and Explorer panels give the possibility for fast navigation of files. Ap thumbnails sub-programme allows viewing of all files in a catalogue before they are opened, including DXF, PLT and other files not managed by Windows or ordinary viewers. Due to the up-to-date tab-based document structure, it it very quick to navigate files.

File Navigation

Dynamic scaling of the drawing with the help of the mouse-wheel, like in AutoCAD™. ‘Find text’ and ‘Find point’ quickly link to the necessary part of the drawing. If only the contour of a detail is required in the drawing, it is possible to hide all texts and sizes in one mouse-click; it is not necerssary to open layers and change their visibility.

Redline

Redline mode or commentaries to the drawing provide additional information that is ‘applied’ to the drawing but does not change the basic file. All editing elements are at your disposal in this mode. Commentaries and remarks, together with the basic file, can be printed or converted to another format. A drawing can be supplied with many such commentaries. In addition, this mode allows the path to be saved to the redline files containing the remarks, and the start of automatic loading.

Print

The print feature provides the user with a vast range of capabilities. Both a single file and a set of files can be printed with predefined settings. The ‘Print preview’ dialog box contains a large number of settings, for example DWG/DXF line width, color and layers, and nil width value. Printing ‘in tiles’ allows printing images on any number of sheets of any size with the necessary scale. For example, large images (A0, A1 etc) can be divided into many small pages of different size for subsequent pasting together into one big drawing. Any ‘tile’ can be printed independently. Therefore, if one page seems defective (eg because of problems with the printer), it is possible to re-print this page separately. As an alternative to printing the whole file, it is possible to print a selected area (with the help of ‘Clip Rectangle’ that selects the required part) and print the viewing frustum. High-quality prints can be mdae of color drawings using a black-and-white printer without grey tones. There are a number of frames that can be inserted onto the printed page.
Preset sizes for standard formats (ISO-A; DIN: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0; US: A, B, C, D, E).

Supported Formats

ABViewer can be associated with all the supported formats

Supported CAD formats:
- AutoCAD™:
  - DWG – all versions (from 2.5 to 2009 inclusive)
  - DXF ASCII (all versions)
  - Template files: DWT
  - Autodesk Design Web Format: DWF
Hewlett-Packard HPGL: PLT, HGL, HG, HPG, PLO, HP, HP1, HP2, HPGL, HPGL2, GL2, PRN, SPL
Scalable vector graphics: SVG
Computer graphics metafile: CGM
Adobe Postscript: PS
Supported raster pictures:
Bitmaps: BMP, RLE, DIB
Icons: ICO
Compuserve GIF: GIF
Arts & Letters thumbnail: GED Images
Autodesk: CEL, PIC Images
CALS Raster: CAL
Images Dr. Halo: CUT, PAL
Images GFI fax: FAX
JPEG images: JPG, JPEG
Images Kodak Photo-CD: PCD
Images Paintshop Pro: PSP
Images Photoshop: PSD, PDD
Images Portable network graphic: PNG
Images Portable pixel/gray map: PPM, PGM, PBM
Images SGI: BW, RGB, RGBA, SGI
Images SGI Wavefront: RLA, RPF
Images TIFF: TIF, TIFF
Images Truevision: TGA, VST, VDA, WIN
Images ZSoft Paintbrush: PCX
Supported vector images:
Metafiles: WMF
Enhanced Meta File: EMF

Export to the following formats:

Adobe Acrobat Document (*.pdf)
Adobe Flash (*.swf)
AutoCAD™ DXF (R2000): (*.dxf)
Bitmap Files: (*.bmp)
Computer Graphics Metafile: (*.cgm)
GIF (*.gif)
Hewlett-Packard HPGL: (*.plt)
JPEG: (*.jpg)
TIFF (*.tiff)
Scalable Vector Graphics: (*.svg)
Windows Metafiles: (*.wmf)
Windows Enhanced Metafiles: (*.emf)

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	This screenshot demonstrates Properties panel. It gives quick and convenient access to entities' properties. It is very useful when editing CAD file or working with Redline entities.

	This screenshot demonstrates Thumbnails window.
	This screenshot demonstrates 3D viewing for CAD files.

	This screenshot demonstrates how Clip Rectangle allows managing with the image.
	This screenshot demonstrates the result of cooperation between Clip Rectangle and Print Preview (see picture above).

	This screenshot demonstrates result of measuring a distance on the drawing.

	This screenshot demonstrates measuring a distance with a base size. This means that user can measure an unknown distance on the drawing even if he don’t know the drawing’s scale, taking a known distance as base size.

	This screenshot demonstrates measuring of arbitrary polyline.

	This screenshot demonstrates measuring of an area on the drawing.

	This screenshot demonstrates Redline elements over the drawing.

	This screenshot demonstrates Batch dialog window.

	This screenshot demonstrates Print Preview dialog for batch printing.