Thanks David. But for some reason I am just not comfortable sketching in the drawing workspace.
But Harold gave me the info I needed to use the .svg output. I spend all day yesterday writing a reader for the .svg output. Lucky for me the file format is ascii text and easily read. For an 80 year old to spend a 12 hour day coding is lots of fun anymore. I got it reading lines & circles now and am on to partial arcs. It outputs the start & end points and the radius. Where as .dxf requires center point, beginning angle and ending angle, & I need to figure a way to select between the 2 possible solutions. So, I've got my work cut out for me for today (and maybe more). Another interesting point is that the data is output at 96X the scale. I wonder if files always use this same scale factor?
Thanks again, Harold.