Any DWG and DXF to Image Converter

Batch Convert DWG and DXF to GIF/JPG/PNG/TIFF Quickly and Easily without the need of AutoCAD.

Pros: DWG and DXF formats for drawings have become like standards in use. Any tool that helps convert these files into other formats such as images or PDF etc are useful. This particular application creates images out of the drawing files and that too in quite a few formats. These are the TIF (TIFF), JPG (JPEG), BMP, GIF and PNG formats and you do not need a copy of AutoCAD running on your machine. Converter creates high quality vector image files from CAD drawings and image files are widely acceptable. On the simple and easy to use interface you need to specify the DWG or DXF type of files that you want to access. Tools available on the interface helps one list a number of files that can be converted in one go in this batch converter. It can also be used from the command line to batch-process multiple conversions. It converts between any combination of DXF or DWG files from R12, R13, R14, 2000, and 2004/2007/2008.

The page, view, and layout from the CAD drawing are retained, making it easy to create a high-quality image files. You could specify line widths and control line width scaling in the target image file. You can use the line width options from the original file, display or suppress line widths in your conversion, or use your own custom line widths. Use DWG page layout settings to create your image conversion. A range of layout choices including from paper space and model space are possible. One can also select layouts to convert by name. You could convert drawings by specific layers, by layer names or layer types(on/off, lock/unlock, frozen/unfrozen, or plottable/ unplottable). Output colors to choose from will be full color, grayscale, or black-and-white.

Cons: No obvious problems found.

Overall: Nice and easy to use application that fulfills a needed functionality on the cheap and is rated at 4 stars.

Any DWG and DXF to Image Converter is a batch converter that allows you to convert DWG and DXF files to TIF (TIFF), JPG (JPEG), BMP, GIF and PNG without the need of AutoCAD. Allows you to convert your drawings into image files easily without purchasing expensive software programs. (New - 2008 supported!)