High-Level Capabilities
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What could CAD look like in your application?
No CAD Licenses
Support CAD formats, including Autodesk AutoCAD® DWG™, DXF™, RVT™, DWF™, and Bentley MicroStation® DGN™, without you or your users needing any CAD software or CAD licenses.
Web, Server, Desktop
Add CAD functionality to any platform with a unified API across web, Windows, Mac, or Linux. Use a single codebase with Xamarin, React Native, Flutter, or other frameworks.
Fully Customizable UI/UX
Increase adoption and productivity by simplifying the open source UI. Match your desired look and feel. Hide unnecessary features — or add custom annotations that trigger workflows.
Features
Just the highlights
View CAD Files
Users can view complex CAD files, plus 20+ other file types quickly and flawlessly, even at high zoom, on all platforms and devices. Easily show or hide layers in a drawing.
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Convert From CAD
Easily add high-fidelity direct conversion from CAD files, on any web, mobile, server or desktop software. Convert to PDF, PDF/A, PDF/E-2, image file types, and more.
CAD Conversion Docs
Preview CAD Files
Quickly generate compact page-one previews and thumbnails of CAD drawings, designs, or blueprints, and display them in any client.
Utilize the PDF format to support a rich array of additional CAD functionality in your software...
Markup & Annotate
Drop in or remove all types of existing PDF markups, including stamp, watermark, call-out comments, free text, signature and shape tools, and more. Create your own custom annotation appearances.
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Real-time Collaboration
Display markups from many users on the same document in real time while preserving an original version of the drawing. Manage annotations in a separate XFDF layer. Add roles, permissions or an audit trail.
Measuring Tools
Give users the ability to measure distance, trace a perimeter or calculate area. Enable accurate measurement with snap-to-point and adjust the scale of measurement to meet drawing specs.
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Compare Files
Make it easy to spot slight visual differences at a glance with version comparison features. Compare documents side by side or in version overlays with highlighted changes.
Generate high-quality vector printouts. Rasterize specific regions, subsets, or layers of a drawing. Programmatically bundle many files into a PDF portfolio for easier, faster printing at scale.
Print Documentation
Search
Quickly sift through documents by adding bookmarks, notes, and highlights. Power complex search by extracting text and annotations.
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... and so much more
Support for Brava! Annotations
Keep working on drawings marked up in Brava!® on Apryse's native and web-based viewers. Convert Brava! annotations in XRL™ to XFDF — the ISO-standard format for annotations interchange. (Only supported for annotations made on PDFs.)
Edit, Manipulate, & Assemble
Stamp documents with an image, text, or a date. Adjust with features to split and merge files, and features to rotate, remove, crop and reorder pages programmatically or free-form by your users.
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True Redaction
Embed free-form redaction in your app to let users permanently remove sensitive information from case documents. Add automated redaction to your workflows to search and anonymize confidential information.
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PDF Layers
Preserve CAD layers as Optional Content Groups (OCGs) when converting to PDF. Let users toggle layer visibility in a viewer. Programmatically create, edit, or extract OCGs.
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Add Even More Functionality
Speed time to market with the most complete PDF SDK on the market — supporting all major platforms, 30+ file formats, and hundreds of unique features.
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