Import and Export: PDF, DXF, DWG, SVG, IFC and Underlays

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**Plan drawing (DXF)** and **Plan drawing (DWG)**: the plan for any CAD program. **DWG release** writes R2000, which opens everywhere, or R2018.

**Plan drawing (SVG)**: the plan as a vector image.

**Plan sheet (PDF)**: the plan on a page, portrait or landscape.

**Detail set (PDF)**: the drawing set as a book: plans, ceiling plans, a layout per trade, schedules, rooms and the site.

**Sheet set (PDF)**: every sheet you laid out, one page each.

**Building model (IFC4)**: the building as typed IFC elements in their storeys, so a consultant opens the model in their own BIM program.

**Building take off**: the walls, slabs and openings counted, as CSV or a workbook.

From the command line

**Export**: `EXPORTPDF` (`PLOT`) with a scale, a sheet and an orientation, and MONO for black and white; `EXPORTDXF`, `EXPORTDWG` and `EXPORTSVG`.

**Import**: `IMPORTDXF`, `IMPORTDWG` and `IMPORTSVG` bring a drawing into the plan.

Trace over a plan you have

1. **Underlay** (`UNDERLAY`, `UL`): put an image or a page of a PDF under the plan. You can also drop the file onto the plan.

2. **Calibrate** (`CALIBRATE`, `CAL`): click two points on it you know the distance between, then type that distance.

3. Draw your walls over it. Its panel sets its wash, locks it, and whether it prints; it never prints unless you ask.

Pictures

**Render photo** saves the 3D or 2.5D view as an image. See [Lighting and rendering](/docs/lighting-and-rendering).

Read next

• Sheets and schedules
• Drafting tools
• Teams and sharing
• Structure

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