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I don't think DrawPlus's internal format is anything but proprietary (but that only means I haven't heard otherwise!) If you need a standard format — for exporting, perhaps — you can get HPGL by playing a little trick. When you select PLOT, DP creates a drawing file which it then spools to the plotter (I believe the name is DrawPlotDump). If you will take your printer OFF LINE (because DP uses the printer.device for plotter output) and then request a plot, it will create the file, then try to write to the printer, throwing up a requester. Cancel the requester and you have an HPGL file just waiting to be used! (Of course you can't import in this manner.) If you're willing to do some work, you can also build a specification file which causes DP to "plot" in any format you need… so you could conceivably create an AutoCAD file directly. But it'd take quite a bit of setup the first time.