Supported formats
CAD formats
| AutoCAD™ | DWG - all versions (up to Autodesk AutoCAD® 2023) |
| AutoCAD™ | DXF ASCII/BINARY all versions |
| Drawing Template | DWT |
| Autodesk Design Web Format | DWF |
| CADSoftTools drawing template | DXT |
Vector Image and Metafiles
| Scalable Vector Graphics | SVG SVGZ |
| Hewlett-Packard HPGL | PLT HGL HG HPG PLO HP HP1 HP2 HP3 HPGL HPGL2 HPP GL GL2 PRN SPL RTL PCL |
| Metafiles | WMF |
| Enhanced Metafiles | EMF |
3D Formats
| 3D Studio and many others | 3DS |
| Stereolithography file format (ANSI and binary) | STL |
| Initial Graphics Exchange Specification | IGES |
| Standard for the Exchange of Product model data | STEP |
| WaveFront Model File | OBJ |
| Parasolid® Model Part File | X_T X_B |
| SolidWorks® Part File | SLDPRT |
| ACIS SAT Model File | SAT |
| Boundary Representation File Format | BREP |
| Autodesk Inventor Data Format | FSAT |
| ACIS binary file | SAB |
| Autodesk Shape Manager Text File | SMT |
| AutoDesk Inventor CAD part | IPT |
| 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 |
| LightWave 3D 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 |
| MDSfiles | MDC |
| Quake2 | MD2 |
| Quake3 | MD3 |
| Doom3 mesh vector file format | MD5 |
| Half-Life | SMD |
| Quake3 | BSP |
Raster Image
| Autodesk images | CEL PIC |
| CALS Image | CAL CG4 GP4 |
| Compuserve GIF | GIF |
| Icon file | ICO |
| JPEG images | JPG JPEG |
| JPEG 2000 images | J2K J2C JNG JP2 |
| Portable network graphic images | PNG |
| Tagged Image File Format TIF images | TIF TIFF |
| Windows Bitmap | BMP RLE DIB |
Complex Formats
| Computer Graphics Metafile | CGM |
Export formats
CAD VCL allows converting files and provides a wide range of export settings, for example, black-and-white mode, specifying the output file size, etc. Here is the full list of supported export formats:
Vector Formats (are supported in the versions CAD VCL Enterprise and CAD Export VCL)
| Adobe Acrobat Document | PDF |
| AutoCAD™ | DWG |
| AutoCAD™ | DXF |
| Adobe Flash | SWF |
| Computer Graphics Metafile | CGM |
| CADSoftTools drawing template | DXT |
| Scalable Vector Graphics | SVG |
| Hewlett-Packard | HPGL PLT |
3D Formats (are supported in the version CAD VCL Enterprise)
| Stereolithography files | STL |
| WaveFront Model File | OBJ |
| ACIS SAT Model File | SAT |
Raster Formats and Metafiles
| Bitmap Files | BMP |
| Compuserve GIF | GIF |
| JPEG images | JPG |
| Portable network graphic images | PNG |
| TIFF images | TIF TIFF |
| Windows Metafiles | WMF |
| Enhanced Metafiles | EMF |
| Adobe Flash File Format | SWF |
G-code (is supported in the version CAD VCL Enterprise)
| Mastercam Numerical Control File | NC |