EZDXF-DRAW(1)

✨ EZDXF-DRAW ✨ (1) — User Commands 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to ezdxf draw — it's the little command that draws and converts DXF files by the Matplotlib backend 🎨✨ It lives in section 1 of the manual (User Commands, the cool section), and it's literally the glow-up your CAD files have been waiting for.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ezdxf draw – draw and convert DXF files by the Matplotlib backend 🦋

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💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

ezdxf draw [-h] [--backend {matplotlib,qt,mupdf,custom_svg}] [--formats]
[-l LAYOUT]
[--background {DEFAULT,WHITE,BLACK,PAPERSPACE,MODELSPACE,OFF,CUSTOM}]
[--all-layers-visible] [--all-entities-visible] [-o OUT] [--dpi DPI]
[-f] [-v] [FILE]

no cap, that's the whole vibe right there 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

🫶 POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

• FILE — the DXF file you wanna view or convert, periodt 💅

😭 OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS

• -h, --help — shows a help message and then dips (exits). the way that it just tells you things and leaves?? iconic 🧚
• --backends {matplotlib,qt,mupdf,custom_svg} — picks the backend for rendering. (and yes bestie, the synopsis up there spells it --backend while this list spells it --backends — not me noticing, I'm just copying it exactly as printed 🙈)
• --formats — shows you every export format your setup supports, then exits. little show-off behaviour, obsessed 🌈
• -l LAYOUT, --layout LAYOUT — picks which layout to draw. default is "Model" 🏠
• --background {DEFAULT,WHITE,BLACK,PAPERSPACE,MODELSPACE,OFF,CUSTOM} — chooses the background colour to use 🎨
• --all-layers-visible — draws all layers, even the ones marked as invisible 👀✨
• --all-layers-visible — (yes, it's printed a second time up in here, and this one is described as drawing all entities including the ones marked as invisible — some entities are individually marked as invisible even when the layer itself is visible, iykyk 💀)
• -o OUT, --out OUT — the output filename for export 📁
• --dpi DPI — target render resolution. default is 300 🔍
• -f, --force — overwrites the destination if it's already there. no "are you sure" energy, it just goes 💥
• -v, --verbose — gives you more output. talk to me more, queen 🗣️💜

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

See ezdxf(1). 🦋

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🍓 FILES 🍓

See ezdxf(1). 💖

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

Convert the DXF file "gear.dxf" into a SVG file by the Matplotlib backend:

$ ezdxf draw -o gear.svg gear.dxf

Show all output formats supported by the Matplotlib backend on your system. This output may vary:

$ ezdxf draw --formats

eps: Encapsulated Postscript
jpg: Joint Photographic Experts Group
jpeg: Joint Photographic Experts Group
pdf: Portable Document Format
pgf: PGF code for LaTeX
png: Portable Network Graphics
ps: Postscript
raw: Raw RGBA bitmap
rgba: Raw RGBA bitmap
svg: Scalable Vector Graphics
svgz: Scalable Vector Graphics
tif: Tagged Image File Format
tiff: Tagged Image File Format

like?? the range?? we love a versatile queen 🔥👑

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ezdxf(1)

ezdxf-audit(1), ezdxf-view(1), ezdxf-browse(1), ezdxf-browse-acis(1), ezdxf-strip(1), ezdxf-config(1), ezdxf-info(1), ezdxf-hpgl(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was EZDXF-DRAW(1), dated March 2024 — main character energy from start to finish, no notes 💅✨🎀