DXF File Viewer?

[John McKissick]

My soon to ship CNC (Millright Mega V) had collections of DXF files available for download with no descriptions or info. I bought Vcarve Desktop, have fusion 360 loaded on personal PC and high end cad on my work computer (CREO, Solidworks, Spaceclaim) but I cannot find an easy way to view (preview) the files without opening each one.

Is there a viewer for DXF files I can interrogate the files with simply and easily?

[David Falkner]

I've never used but this came up in a Google search - http://www.dxfviewer.com

David

[John McKissick]

I've never used but this came up in a Google search - http://www.dxfviewer.com

David

Thanks, tried it and no better or faster than what I have. Hoping for something like a preview in file manager. I'll keep looking or do it the long hard way opening each file

So used to file preview before opening, even Creo has a preview prior to opening a file but it needs to be native format

[David Buchhauser]

https://dxfviewer.us/product/dxfviewer/
SmartView.jpg

[Dan Bundy]

Irfanview might open it. In addition to the program, to open some files you need to download/install a set of plugins.

https://www.irfanview.com/

no affiliation. DB

[John McKissick]

Looks like lightroom for dxf files

[Mark Bolton]

Autodesk use to have something called TrueView or something like that I think that would generate previews for dxf/dwg files. I read about this a long while back when we put our CNC in and something with regards to text vs. binary and no easy way to automatically generate and store a thumbnail in the file was the issue. I dont use Autodesk much and never looked at it and dont know if it works across the board or not.

[Bruce Page]

I’ve used AutoCAD’s Trueview on my Win7 shop PC. It works, but I find it slow to load. It does not have thumbnail/preview ability. I’m a long time AutoCAD user but only have 1 copy on my “office” PC.