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Avax Vector .NET

Avax Vector .NET

Windows Forms component for Developers Bring 2D drafting to your .NET applications. View, create, edit, print and manage vector drawings with a component for x86 and x64.

Developer SDK v.3 New

Overview

Add a complete 2D drawing workspace to your Windows application. AVAX Vector .NET is a Windows Forms component for developers who need to display, create, edit, print and manage vector drawings. Use it from VB.NET or C# in a .NET Framework 4.8 project targeting x86 or x64.

Build CAD tools, technical drawing editors, diagramming applications or drawing-based business interfaces. The control brings together geometric drawing, text, filled shapes, blocks, layers, precise selection and snapping, measurements, file exchange and printing. More than 500 API members, drawing commands and parameters, with documentation and 295 source examples, let you control the end user's interactive drafting process.

Canvas / Page Workspace

Switch between an open drawing canvas and a paper view with margins, orientation, drawing units and print scale.

Native Dimensions & Hatches

Linear, aligned, angular, radius and diameter dimensions, plus associative PAT, solid and gradient hatches with islands and transparency.

Developer Integration

Commands, properties and events, object identity and application data, selection regions and embedded AVAX controls.

Features

Drawing tools, application control and output

Native x86 and x64 controls for .NET Framework 4.8 Windows Forms, from VB.NET or C#. Geometric drawing: lines, points, polylines, arcs, circles, ellipses, polygons and Bézier curves. Text using Windows fonts, plus TXT and RTF content. Filled shapes with solid colours, hatch lines, AutoCAD PAT patterns, bitmap images or supported animations, with drawing order. Reusable blocks: create and insert groups of drawing objects. Copy, move, scale, rotate, mirror and stretch geometry; arrays and copies at a specified distance. Trim, fillet, extend, offset and line hatching. Selection windows, crossing or enclosed selection, select all, add/remove from the selection. Grid and grid snap; endpoint, midpoint, nearest, intersection, perpendicular, tangent and centre snaps. Dimensions and angles; measure distances and areas. Layers, colour palettes, line widths, line and point styles, font tables. ByLayer colour and line style. Zoom window, extents, all, dynamic, pan and previous; horizontal and vertical rulers and scroll bars. Double-precision coordinates and editable shape properties. Every drawing object has a Handle, KeyName and its own string-array properties for application data. Interactive graphics using selection regions. Events such as BeforeClick, SelectChange, BeforeCopy, BeforeMove and ZoomChange. Embedded AVAX controls: Button, TextBox, ComboBox, CheckBox, option controls, PictureBox, Label and Form. Customise messages, line types, font tables and colour palettes through external resources. Import AutoCAD DXF and DWG, native AVAX and legacy AVX drawings, SVG, PLT and SHP; insert BMP, JPG, ICO, PCX and WMF images. Export to DXF, DWG, SVG, PLT, PIC, WMF, PDF, XML and RTF; BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF and TIFF images; legacy SWF. Print to a page or multiple pages, fit to paper, print preview, print at scale, print to a printer or any hDC. Clipboard copy, cut and paste; Undo/Redo. API documentation and 295 packaged source examples, including the AvaxCAD Windows Forms example.

More

Moving from version 2. Rebuild against the v.3 assembly for the chosen architecture. Drawing coordinates use Double, while many resource indices use Integer. v.3 requires a source migration; check the developer manual for exact signatures and remaining compatibility limits.

Licensing. Activate each development computer with RegAVAX.exe or the control's Developer activation... command, and call Avax.cAvax.Unlock("YOUR-SERIAL-NUMBER") before InitializeComponent() in your distributed application. Customer computers do not need developer activation. See the runtime licensing guide.

Native .avax files preserve the v.3 drawing data, editable dimensions, hatch associations and workspace settings; older .avx drawings remain readable. Legacy AVX output converts new dimensions and hatches to legacy graphics. DXF/DWG exchange does not create paper layouts from the Canvas / Page settings. The SDK license is separate from AVAX-CAD R3.

Images

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Quick Start

Create a .NET Framework 4.8 Windows Forms project, reference the matching x86 or x64 v.3 assembly, and place an Avax.cAvax control named cAvax1 on the form. This example runs in evaluation mode:

Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    If Not cAvax1.StartAvax() Then Return
    cAvax1.Add_Line(0, 0, 0, 10, 10, 0)
    cAvax1.WorkspaceMode = Avax.AvaxWorkspaceMode.Canvas

    ' Show the paper using the same drawing coordinates.
    cAvax1.DrawingUnitMM = 1000  ' One unit = one metre.
    cAvax1.PageScale = 100      ' Print scale 1:100.
    cAvax1.WorkspaceMode = Avax.AvaxWorkspaceMode.Page
End Sub

Private Sub Form1_FormClosed(sender As Object,
        e As FormClosedEventArgs) Handles MyBase.FormClosed
    cAvax1.EndAvax()
End Sub