Howto

The Howto section show how to accomplish specific tasks with ezdxf in a straight forward way without teaching basics or internals, if you are looking for more information about the ezdxf internals look at the Reference section or if you want to learn how to use ezdxf go to the Tutorials section or to the Basic Concepts section.

• General Document
  • Load DXF Files with Structure Errors
  • Set/Get Header Variables
  • Set DXF Drawing Units
  • Create More Readable DXF Files (DXF Pretty Printer)
  • Calculate Extents for the Modelspace
  • Set Initial View/Zoom for the Modelspace
  • Hide the UCS Icon
  • Show Lineweights in DXF Viewers
  • Add ezdxf Resources to Existing DXF Document
  • Set Logging Level of ezdxf
• DXF Viewer
  • A360 Viewer Problems
  • DXF Entities Are Not Displayed in the Viewer
  • Show IMAGES/XREFS on Loading in AutoCAD
  • Set Initial View/Zoom for the Modelspace
  • Show Lineweights in DXF Viewers
• DXF Content
  • Get/Set Entity Color
  • Get/Set Entity RGB Color
  • Get/Set True Color as RGB-Tuple
  • Get/Set Block Reference Attributes
  • Adding XDATA to Entities
  • Get Overridden DIMSTYLE Values from DIMENSION
  • Override DIMSTYLE Values for DIMENSION
  • How to Change the HATCH Pattern Origin Point
  • How to Get the Length of a Spline or Polyline
  • How to Resolve DXF Properties
• Fonts
  • Rendering SHX Fonts
  • Rebuild Internal Font Cache
  • Matplotlib Doesn’t Find Fonts
• Drawing Add-on
  • All Backends
  • Matplotlib Backend