# ODA DRAWINGS EXPLORER

For rendering and testing

ODA Drawings Explorer incorporates the power and flexibility of ODA into a single application that can render both .dwg files and .dgn files using a common command interface for both formats.

## Features

File management  

- Load, save, print, and render .dwg and .dgn files.
- Recover and audit damaged .dwg files.
- Create new .dwg files.
- Import .dgn files.

     Editing  

- Work with architecture objects (uses ODA Architecture integration).
- Draw simple entities: boxes, spheres, circles, texts and lines.
- Zoom, pan, orbit and select various preset 3D views.
- Select an active layout via drawing window tabs. Switch the current viewport.
- Select and deselect items in a drawing. Delete items from a drawing. Use grips in .dwg files.
- Undo and redo operations in .dwg files.
- Edit general properties of entities; edit all properties of lines and arcs in .dwg files.
- Edit layer properties using the Layer Properties Manager (turn layers on/off, etc.)

     User options  

- Use menu, toolbar, and command window interfaces.
- Customize menus and toolbars via .cui files.
- Switch windows.
- View and change system variables, and reset system variables.
- Load .NET TX plug-ins (Windows only, ODA members only).
- Execute loaded commands via a menu item.

     Customization  

- Define in a Startup Suite the applications to load automatically when ODA Drawings Explorer starts.
- Enter arguments and switches when running the ODA Drawings Explorer executable to automatically open files, run scripts, and load TX applications. Enter /? for a list of arguments, for example:

     c:\\ODADrawingsExplorer.exe /?

   ## Commands

A complete list of commands available within ODA Drawings Explorer is available [here](/guestfiles/oda_drawings_explorer/reference)

[RPM](/guestfiles/get?filename=ODADrawingsExplorer_QT6_lnxX64_8.3dll_27.1.rpm) [DEB](/guestfiles/get?filename=ODADrawingsExplorer_QT6_lnxX64_8.3dll_27.1.deb) [Appimage](/guestfiles/get?filename=ODADrawingsExplorer_QT6_lnxX64_8.3dll_27.1.AppImage)

OpenSUSE11.2/Ubuntu 20.10 x64 or later. GLIBC version 2.28 or higher is required. **Now Qt runtimes are integrated into the packages!**

- **RPM packages:**

    Use system software to install, for example:

     `sudo yum localinstall --skip-broken ODADrawingsExplorer_QT6_lnxX64_8.3dll.rpm`Note that it is required to skip false broken dependecies (--nodeps option for rpm). When installing several products of the same version, it may require using console to force resolving conflicts

     `sudo rpm -i --replacefiles ODADrawingsExplorer_QT6_lnxX64_8.3dll.rpm`
- **DEB packages:**

    Use system software to install, for example:

     `sudo gdebi ODADrawingsExplorer_QT6_lnxX64_8.3dll.deb` from the terminal command line. You may need superuser privileges to install.

     Modern Linux such as Ubuntu 22/Fedora37 also require to install/symlynk libxcb-util.so.0 library (they usually contain libxcb-util.so.1 now). It can be fixed quickly as following:

     `cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu (Ubuntu)`or

     `cd /usr/lib64 (Fedora)`then

     `sudo ln -s libxcb-util.so.1 libxcb-util.so.0`
- **AppImage packages:**

     Runs as portable version of software from disk image. Does not require installation at all! However, fuse component must be installed (appears that Fedora already has it, On Ubuntu use

     `sudo apt install fuse` Using AppImage does not require any additional Linux components as well. The image contains everything.

- [dmg](/guestfiles/get?filename=ODADrawingsExplorer_QT6_macOsX_arm64_15.0dll_27.1.dmg) [pkg](/guestfiles/get?filename=ODADrawingsExplorer_QT6_macOsX_arm64_15.0dll_27.1.pkg)

Mac OS X 13.0 arm64 or later (Apple Chip)
- [dmg](/guestfiles/get?filename=ODADrawingsExplorer_QT6_macOsX_x64_15.0dll_27.1.dmg) [pkg](/guestfiles/get?filename=ODADrawingsExplorer_QT6_macOsX_x64_15.0dll_27.1.pkg)

     Mac OS X 13.0 x64 or later (Intel Chip)

    [Download](/guestfiles/get?filename=ODADrawingsExplorer_QT6_vc16_amd64dll_27.1.msi)

Windows 10 or later (x64)

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