How to import and visualize 2D drawings in Web Toolkit

How to import and visualize 2D drawings in Web Toolkit

We have a ready-made Drawing Viewer Example that shows drawings: sheets, layers, elements in a browser. Its source code is available here on GitHub. It can be implemented into your solution.
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In order for the Web Toolkit to display the drawing, the latter will need to be converted to CDXWEB format first. CDXWEB is a highly compressed web-friendly format we use in Web Toolkit. Here's an a demonstration of how a JT file is prepared.


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