DXFTool Standard Edition for CorelDRAW

The DXFTool Standard Edition application was designed to be a program that provides very high quality DXF files for use in CAD / CAM programs. They are also very useful for Laser and Vinyl cutting systems that use DXF files since text handling is optimized and you do NOT have to ever convert your drawing to curves.

The advantages of this tool are provided by conversions of the bezier curves in CorelDRAW to LINE and ARC DXF entities only. What this means is that instead of a large number of very short lines the DXF file has as many smooth curves as can be made from the CorelDRAW shapes in your drawing.

The DXFTool was originally written in CorelDRAW VBA. This was a good first step, but it had some disadvantages. The biggest one was the need to have VBA installed in your copy of CorelDRAW. Some people did not install VBA and some OEM versions of CorelDRAW (particularly X3) did NOT include VBA in the distribution.

The new DXFTool Standard Edition has been rewritten in C++ to give many benefits. It is faster, better integrated with CorelDRAW and supports multiple versions with ease! The V12 version does still require VBA to start it but both the X3 and X4 version run from a plugin. No custom workspace is needed for X3 and X4, the plugin just adds a button to the standard toolbar when it starts up. The DXFTool Standard Edition icon is different, it is a red DXF with a wrench together so you know that you have 'tools'.

New features that were made possible by the rewrite are international languages and metric units (MM) .support.

The DXFTool Standard Edition works on the bezier curves internally, there is NEVER any need to convert your drawing to curves, not even for text! This means that you can quickly make changes and export a new DXF file. You don't even have to save your drawing before exporting.