the relatively uncomplicated drawing i have is about half a megabyte of this crap
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wait that gives me an idea, this reminds me vaguely of what Altium did with their file format. so i think it would be easier to track down a copy of the software and install it on an old PC, then save it as some other format, rather than trying to reverse engineer this mountain of binary garbage. there are three lessons here: @tubetime @tubetime I'd probably run this in a VM since its possible that it could have some unsavory additions...
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@tubetime I found this dude that has a copy and was willing to translate files you e-mail him, lol. https://www.worldcadaccess.com/blog/2015/11/got-axd-files-we-got-actrix-2000-for-translation.html @tubetime If you don’t mind e-mailing your AXD files to someone named Ralph Grabowski, they’ll get converted to DWGs and sent back to you: https://www.worldcadaccess.com/blog/2015/11/got-axd-files-we-got-actrix-2000-for-translation.html @tubetime That's probably the best thing to do. |
oh no, OLE automation. this is some sort of cursed Windows C++ OLE automation serialized object nonsense.