"JNetCAD" is a Java-Application for viewing, manipulation and creation of CAD data. It's free for non commercial or educational use. Following CAD formats are supported (click on the links to see the (un-)supported features and the change log):

Screenshots can be exported as ...

• BMP (Windows Bitmap)
• GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
• JPEG (Join Photographic Export Group)
• PDF (Portable Document Format)
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics)

Other formats will follow, see planned features.

The CAD loader / writer libraries are available as JAR files, which can easily be integrated in every Java (at least version 1.5) project. A source sample can be found in the downloads section. The loaders / writers can be used in non commercial or educational projects for free. For commercial use please contact the author.

• Version 2.0:
  • Enable drawing of entities (e. g. arc or freehand)
  • Allow editing the rendered entities
  • Allow changing the visibility and color of layers (two new icons in the layer list)
  • Allow drawing on the selected layer
  • Add line attributes (line type and thickness)
  • Add ortho mode, for drawing horizontal and vertical lines
  • Add an optional raster to catch points
  • Add online help for creating geometry
• General:
  • CAD import formats: VRML, X3D, STEP, VGF, IGES, ...
  • CAD export formats: 3DS, VRML, X3D, SVG, WebGL, ...
  • Add icons to the layer list: Visibility, color and current drawing layer. Allow editing this attributes
  • Add a window / viewport zooming function
  • Change configuration from property to XML (with predefined options)
  • Antialiasing

• JNetCAD (v1.09, 6.56 MB) Complete standalone application
• RaidaCADAdapter (v1.07, 4.40 MB) Adapter for all CAD loaders. Allows to render every loaded CAD file with Java3D, JOGL or jReality (JOGL and software renderer). An example for the RaidaDXFLoader is integrated. Includes the JavaDoc for all CAD loaders. The "com.sun.j3d.loaders.Loader" interface is implemented by "Java3DAdapter2".
• Raida3DSLoader (v1.04, 0.26 MB)
• RaidaBGFLoader (v1.04, 0.04 MB)
• RaidaDXFLoader (v1.06, 0.12 MB)
• RaidaJTLoader (v1.24, 0.18 MB)
• RaidaOBJLoader (v1.02, 0.10 MB)
• RaidaSTLLoader (v1.03, 0.12 MB)
• Raida3DPDFExporter (v1.03, 4.11 MB)
• RaidaDXFExporter (v1.03, 3.14 MB)
• RaidaEPSExporter (v1.02, 3.14 MB)
• RaidaJSONExporter (v1.00, 3.14 MB)
• RaidaJTExporter (v1.01, 3.16 MB)
• RaidaOBJExporter (v1.02, 3.14 MB)
• RaidaSTLExporter (v1.02, 3.14 MB)
• RaidaVGFExporter (v1.03, 3.14 MB)

Please report bugs to the author.