Our company manufactures actuators & hydraulic/pneumatic cylinders and I would like to offer our customers the option to download a .dxf file of the to-scale shape according to what they select from our new Product Configurator (still under development using PHP).

We have used this approach in the past internally with a program created with VB and the outline can be saved in .dxf format. This has worked well internally, however now we need to recreate this in the online environment to dovetail with our new online Product Configurator.

All I can envision is to reproduce all of the effort and coding to create every line and curve using PHP (or equivalent - VB.net? - any suggestions?) - an enormous undertaking. However since the configurations are virtually infinite it may be the most comprehensive approach.

Alternatively maybe there is another approach whereby info within our existing SW models can be extracted directly into code format and utilized to create the needed .dxf files. The problem here is that our SW models would not be residing online (I don't think this is possible anyway) for this extraction process.

Since we own SW I was hopeful that there would be something within the SW tools or add-ins etc that may assist with this whole endeavor. I don't know.

Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Ed

(this discussion was moved from Import/Export as someone suggested)