KOMPAS (flat 2D DXF drawing)

KOMPAS-3D is a Russian CAD system by ASCON, the de facto standard in domestic mechanical engineering and design: it is what people draft with at plants and what universities teach. An OpenStreetMap map is needed there as a base plan — the context of the site, the streets and buildings around the object being designed.

The export delivers a flat 2D DXF drawing prepared specifically for KOMPAS: lines, outlines and labels in plan, with no volume. Version R2007 and newer with UTF-8 encoding, so Russian layer names and labels read without corruption, the units are metric, and the layers are named in Russian. KOMPAS opens such a file with its standard command and saves it into its own .cdw or .frw in one step — the content of the drawing does not change in the process.

The map is laid out across layers: roads, buildings, water, vegetation, points of interest, boundaries. The ones you do not need are switched off in the layer manager, and the rest stay as a base plan on top of which you do your own work. The geometry is vector — it can be measured, snapped to and built upon.

If a coordinate system was explicitly chosen at export time, a ZIP arrives along with the drawing: the file itself and a .prj describing the projection — so the georeferencing is visible to GIS tools as well. Without an explicit choice, a single drawing file is delivered.