ABViewer 7.3

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, IGES/IGS, STEP/STP, STL, 3DS, TIFF, BMP, JPG, GIF etc.

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Any place other than the first one at the Olympic Games
in Ancient Greece was equal to a defeat.

A combined viewer, editor and converter
Support for DWG, DXF, PLT, HPGL, TIFF, SVG, CGM, IGES/IGS, STEP/STP, STL, 3DS 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 aspects of ABViewer are quality, speed and price!

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
3DStudio (and many others): 3DS
Stereolithography file format (ANSI and binary): STL
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification: IGES¹
Standard for the Exchange of Product model data: STEP¹
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 other 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 vector data 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 texts 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 as well as 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
Color 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. 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, you can navigate between files quickly and easily.

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 necessary to open layers and change their visibility.

Redline

Redline mode or commentaries to the drawing provide additional information that is ‘applied over’ 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, the path to the redline files containing the remarks can be saved, which allows to load the files automatically when the drawing is opened next time.

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 (e.g., 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. Color drawings can be printed with a black-and-white printer in high quality and without grey half-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 2011 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

Supported 3D file formats (built in 3D Viewers)

AutoCAD™ drawing file format: DWG
Drawing Exchange Format: DXF
3DStudio (and many others): 3DS
Stereolithography file format (ANSI and binary): STL (STL Viewer)
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification: IGES/IGS¹ (IGES Viewer)
Standard for the Exchange of Product model data: STEP/STP¹ (STEP Viewer)
WaveFront and many others: OBJ
GNU Triangulated Surface: GTS
Triangular Irregular Network vector file format: TIN
ASCI Scene Export: ASE
Blitz 3D model files: B3D
Ghoul2 (GLM) model files: GLM, GLX, GLA
Pulsar Studio LMTS File Format: LMTS
Lightwave3D object file (6.0 or above): LWO
Nurbs surfaces vector file: NURBS
NormalMapper files: NMF
FSRad OCT files: OCT
Stanford Triangle Format vector file: PLY
Virtual Reality Modeling Language vector file: VRML
MDC files: MCD
Quake2: MD2
Quake3: MD3
Doom3 mesh vector file format: MD5
Half-Life: SMD
Quake3: BSP

¹ Free to use additional library is required for IGES/IGS and STEP/STP formats (7.5 MB):

http://www.cadsofttools.com/download/converter3df.zip

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)

Languages

There is support for more than 30 languages:

Arabic
Brazilian Portuguese
Bulgarian
Belarusian
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
Greek
German
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Taiwanese
Turkish
Ukrainian

	This screenshot demonstrates Properties panel. It gives quick and convenient access to entities' properties. It is very useful for editing CAD files 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 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 shows how to bring the dimensions in the drawing to the necessary value (for example to show the actual size of the drawing prototype) by setting just one known dimension, after which all other dimensions are changed in accordance with the scale of the drawing.

	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.