Kabeja

Library for parsing DXF files and conversion to SVG

It is licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0.

Current state: The original Kabeja project has not been updated since 2010. Third parties have since worked on the library. Most importantly the build system was changed from Ant to Maven. Unfortunately this left parts of the program in a partially broken state. The library part itself works but the GUI and the CLI are currently broken.

Limitations

Not all DXF entities are supported yet. Text entities are still problematic.

Supported entities

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

CLI

launcher.jar is currently not built by the Maven script.

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

If you experience OOM problems, try java -Xmx256m

GUI

The GUI is currently broken.

Cocoon

Cocoon is an XML Publishing Framework.

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

In your sitemap/subsitemap:

<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: Large DXF drafts will cause SVGDocument to consume a lot of memory. The Generator is Cacheable so the first run will take more time.