Drop a plotter file or a CAD drawing and get the other format back in seconds. The conversion runs on your own computer, so your drawings are never uploaded anywhere.
Drop a plotter file or a DXF drawing. It is converted on your computer and never uploaded.
Drop a .plt, .hpgl or .dxf file here
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The direction is detected automatically. Up to 50 MB.
Most cutters and plotters use the HP-GL standard. Change it only if your machine's manual says otherwise.
Use this if a DXF comes out 25.4 or 10 times too big or too small.
Recommended for cutters, which cannot reach negative coordinates.
Choose a .plt, .hpgl or .dxf file. PlotBridge reads it with your browser, without sending it to a server.
You see the drawing at its real size in millimetres, with each pen in its own colour, before you download anything.
HPGL becomes a DXF you can open in any CAD program. DXF becomes HPGL your plotter or cutter can run.
Reads pen moves (PU, PD, PA, PR), circles and arcs (CI, AA, AR), rectangles (EA, ER, RA, RR), labels (LB, SI, DI, DT) and pen selection (SP).
Writes DXF R12 in millimetres, which every CAD program opens. Each pen goes on its own layer, named PEN_1, PEN_2 and so on.
Reads lines, polylines with arcs, circles, arcs, ellipses, splines, text, blocks and arrays. Mirrored parts and hidden layers are handled correctly.
Writes HP-GL that plotters, vinyl cutters and engravers accept, grouped by pen so the machine changes pens as little as possible.
No. The page downloads the converter once, then your browser does all the work. Your drawing never leaves your computer, and you can even disconnect from the internet before converting.
HPGL has no splines or ellipses, so curves are approximated with segments that stay within 0.01 mm of the true curve. That is far finer than any plotter or cutter can draw.
Open Settings. If a DXF is 25.4 times too big or too small, set the drawing units to inches or millimetres. If an HPGL file is off by a factor of 2.5, try a different plotter resolution.
Any device that accepts HP-GL: pen plotters, vinyl and cutting plotters, and many engravers and CNC controllers. Check that your machine uses 40 units per millimetre, which is the most common setting.
No. PlotBridge is free, has no account and shows no ads.