Version R18 is a major release, with AutoCAD 2018-support, Inventor 2018-support, strongly improved PDF technology and introduction of IFC-support, in addition to a large number of fixes and improvements.

RxView allows users to view & print more than 250 different file formats – without the design software installed on the machine. CAD drawings, 3D CAD models, IFC-files, plot-files, PDFs, Office documents, raster images and scanned drawings.

Perfect CAD! The AutoCAD DWG 2018 format is basically the same as for the previous versions 2013-2015, but with continuous service releases from Autodesk. Rasterex updates the DWG-reader to keep up with Autodesk’s own release and update plan, but also keeps maintaining the backwards compatibility for legacy versions outside of Autodesk’s policies.

Perfect PDF! PDF has become a de facto standard for exchange of information also within the CAD industry. Rasterex has replaced the PDF reader with a new and better one, based on the latest and best libraries available on the market. It is fast, accurate and flexible, and reads, renders and converts PDFs perfectly. The overlay/compare feature in RxView has always been very popular. So far, it has only worked for vector files, for direct comparison of vector elements. With the new PDF library, this functionality works also for PDF comparison. Open two versions of the PDF files, overlay the two, and get a visible view of the differences, highlighted with selected colours.

Perfect BIM! IFC is about to become a de facto standard for exchange of BIM-information in large building projects. Rasterex is proud to present IFC-support as a new option in RxView & RxHighlight. A BIM ribbon tab has been added with specific BIM-related functionality. Users can pull up the IFC-model, manoeuvre through the model tree, retrieve relevant data for each part, walk through the building, explode the model, switch parts on and off, set transparency etc.