
ezdxf
=====

Abstract
--------

A Python package to create and modify DXF drawings, independent from the DXF
version. You can open/save every DXF file without losing any content (except comments),
Unknown tags in the DXF file will be ignored but preserved for saving. With this behavior
it is possible to open also DXF drawings that contains data from 3rd party applications.

Quick-Info
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- ezdxf is a Python package to create new DXF files and read/modify/write existing DXF files
- the intended audience are developers
- requires at least Python 3.6
- OS independent
- tested with CPython & pypy3 on Windows 10 & ubuntu-latest by GitHub Actions
- additional required packages: [pyparsing](https://pypi.org/project/pyparsing/) and for testing 
  [geomdl](https://github.com/orbingol/NURBS-Python) (aka NURBS-Python)
- MIT-License
- read/write/new support for DXF versions: R12, R2000, R2004, R2007, R2010, R2013 and R2018
- additional read support for DXF versions R13/R14 (upgraded to R2000)
- additional read support for older DXF versions than R12 (upgraded to R12)
- read/write support for ASCII DXF and Binary DXF
- preserves third-party DXF content

Included Extensions
-------------------

- The `drawing` add-on is a translation layer to send DXF data to a render backend, interfaces to 
  [matplotlib](https://pypi.org/project/matplotlib/), which can export images as png, pdf or svg, 
  and [PyQt5](https://pypi.org/project/PyQt5/) are implemented.
- `r12writer` add-on to write basic DXF entities direct and fast into a DXF R12 file or stream
- `iterdxf` add-on to iterate over DXF entities of the modelspace of really big (> 5GB) DXF files which
  do not fit into memory
- `Importer` add-on to import entities, blocks and table entries from another DXF document
- `dxf2code` add-on to generate Python code for DXF structures loaded from DXF 
  documents as starting point for parametric DXF entity creation
- Plot Style Files (CTB/STB) read/write add-on

A simple example:

```python
import ezdxf

# Create a new DXF document.
doc = ezdxf.new(dxfversion='R2010')

# Create new table entries (layers, linetypes, text styles, ...).
doc.layers.new('TEXTLAYER', dxfattribs={'color': 2})

# DXF entities (LINE, TEXT, ...) reside in a layout (modelspace, 
# paperspace layout or block definition).  
msp = doc.modelspace()

# Add entities to a layout by factory methods: layout.add_...() 
msp.add_line((0, 0), (10, 0), dxfattribs={'color': 7})
msp.add_text(
    'Test', 
    dxfattribs={
        'layer': 'TEXTLAYER'
    }).set_pos((0, 0.2), align='CENTER')

# Save DXF document.
doc.saveas('test.dxf')
```

Example for the *r12writer*, which writes a simple DXF R12 file without in-memory structures:

```python
from random import random
from ezdxf.addons import r12writer

MAX_X_COORD = 1000
MAX_Y_COORD = 1000

with r12writer("many_circles.dxf") as doc:
    for _ in range(100000):
        doc.add_circle((MAX_X_COORD*random(), MAX_Y_COORD*random()), radius=2)
```

The r12writer supports only the ENTITIES section of a DXF R12 drawing, no HEADER, TABLES or BLOCKS section is
present, except FIXED-TABLES are written, than some additional predefined text styles and line types are available.

Installation
------------

Install with pip for Python 3.6 and later:

    pip install ezdxf

Install latest development version with pip from GitHub:

    pip install git+https://github.com/mozman/ezdxf.git@master

or from source:

    python setup.py install

Website
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https://ezdxf.mozman.at/

Documentation
-------------

Documentation of development version at https://ezdxf.mozman.at/docs

Documentation of latest release at http://ezdxf.readthedocs.io/

Contribution
------------

The source code of *ezdxf* can be found at __GitHub__, target your pull requests to the `master` branch:

http://github.com/mozman/ezdxf.git


Feedback
--------

Questions and feedback at __Google Groups__:

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/python-ezdxf

python-ezdxf@googlegroups.com

Questions at __Stack Overflow__:

Post questions at [stack overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/) and use the tag `dxf` or `ezdxf`.

Issue tracker at __GitHub__:

http://github.com/mozman/ezdxf/issues

Contact
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Please __always__ post questions at the [forum](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/python-ezdxf) 
or [stack overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/) or open an 
[issue](https://github.com/mozman/ezdxf/issues) at github to make answers 
available to other users as well. 

ezdxf@mozman.at

Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Manfred
