Kabeja is a small library for parsing DXF-Files and converting this to SVG. It is licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0.

Limitation:

There are not all Entities of DXF supported yet. Text-Entities generate problems too.

Supported:

*Arc *Attrib *Polyline *Circle *Line *Blocks/Insert *Text *MText *LWPolyline *Solid *Trace *Ellipse *Dimension *Image *Leader *XLine *Ray *Hatch *Spline *MLine

Planned:

• Tolerance

You can use Kabeja from CLI (Command Line Interface) or embed in your application.

GUI:

Windows: * double-click "kabeja.exe"

Linux: * sh kabeja.sh

	or:
	
	* chmod a=rx kabeja.sh (only ones)
	* ./kabeja.sh

Other: * java -jar launcher.jar

CLI:

in the Kabeja-folder try:

• Help and pipeline list

  java -jar launcher.jar --help

• Convert to svg

  java -jar launcher.jar -nogui -pipeline svg myfile.dxf result.svg

• Convert to pdf|jpeg|png|...

  java -jar launcher.jar -nogui -pipeline <pdf|jpeg|png> myfile.dxf

Normally Java uses 64 MB of your memory, to setup more use the following commandline switch:

java -Xmx256m -jar .....

GUI-Viewer:

in the 'lib'-folder try:

java -jar kabeja-svgview.jar

Cocoon 2.1 (XML-Publishing-Framework http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1):

Copy the 'kabeja.jar' and 'kabeja-svg2dxf-cocoon.jar' to your WEB-INF/lib-folder of your Cocoon-Webapplication. Then you can use Kabeja as Generator like:

in your sitemap/subsitemap:

snippet:

map:components .....
<map:generators default="file">

<map:generator name="dxf2svg" src="org.kabeja.cocoon.generation.DXF2SVGGenerator"/>

</map:generators>

.... map:pipelines

map:pipeline

 <map:match pattern="dxf/*.svg">
    <map:generate type="dxf2svg" src="dxf/{1}.dxf"/>
  ...
   <!-- transform things you need -->

<map:serialize type="xml"/>
 </map:match>

</map:pipeline>

....

</map:pipelines>

Note: DXF-drafts often real large drafts, so the SVGDocument will consume a lot of memory. The Generator is Cacheable so the first run will take more time.

Feedback and Help

Any help and feedback are greatly appreciated.

Mail: simon.mieth@gmx.de