File Format

Modified on: Tue, 28 Oct, 2025 at 2:12 PM

When export a layer, you need to define the fileFormat parameter, e.g.

fileFormat should be assigned one of the names OR values listed below:

For 2D Layers

Name	Number	Description
AdobeIllustrator	11	An Adobe Illustrator file.
AdobePDF	12	A Portable Document Format file.
AdobePostscript	13	A Postscript file.
CFF2	3	A Common File Format drawing.
DDES	4	A Digital Data Exchange Specification v2 file.
DDES3	25	A Digital Data Exchange Specification v3 file.
DWG	2	An AutoCAD drawing file.
DXF	5	An AutoCAD Drawing Exchange Format file.
EasyBender	24	An EasyBender file.
Elcede	9	An Elcede drawing file.
HPGL	8	A Hewlett Packard Graphics Language file.
ImageSetter	10	An Image Setter file.
Impact	0	An Impact CAD drawing file.
Sumo	7	A Sumo rule bending file.
ViewerExchange	28	An Arden Software proprietary format, intended for Arden use only.

Note. For Adobe PDF, both of the following are acceptable:

Name	Number	Description
Studio3DASCII	17	A 3D Studio ASCII file.
Studio3DBinary	16	A 3D Studio binary file.
COLLADA	30	A Collada interchange file.
GLB	36	A Graphics Library Transmission Format (binary) file.
GLTF	35	A Graphics Library Transmission Format file.
Impact3DInterchange	14	An Impact 3D interchange file.
OBJ	32	A Wavefront 3D object format file.
PackagedCollada	31	A Collada package file.
PLY	33	A Stanford Polygon 3D format file.
STL	34	A Stereolithography 3D format file.
U3D	27	A Universal 3D file.
VRML10	18	A VRML version 1.0 file.
VRML20	19	A VRML version 2.0 file.

To generate a preview image of a layer, you can use:

GET api/projects/{projectId}/layers/{layerId}/preview?fileFormat=fileFormat

Where the fileFormat is one of the names or values listed below:

Name	Number	Description
Bitmap	1	A bitmap image.
JPG	23	A JPEG File Interchange Format image file.
Metafile	2	A Windows metafile format file.
PNG	22	A Portable Network Graphics image file.
TIFF	26	An Tagged Image File format file.