I often wondered how Postscript would do for this. I've had to learn a bit of it over the years because of a scripting language that I use being is based upon it. It seems pretty versatile and mature. Every operating system that I have seems to have a way of using it. There seem to be tons of ps to whatever converters out. I bet Eric Wilhelm has some good ideas on the subject. Eric, are you still on this mailing list? Dan On 4/3/10 12:26 PM, Lars O. Grobe wrote: > This is actually interesting. We have open standards for 3d (step, iges, > x3d), we have for 2d illustration (svg), but do we have for 2s cad? Is > svg suitable for this? > I ask because I see dxf as highly problematic here. It is fine if your > files work with QCad, but this does not make dxf an open standard. It > heavily depends on (and changes with) versions and is controlled by a > company not very open to the rest of the world. > > So what would people propose if not svg? iges and step provide 2d, but > is there software able to use this? > > Cheers > > Lars. > > > > >