For many years, Autodesk did not publish specifications, making correct creation of DXF files difficult.
Versions of AutoCAD from Release 10 (October 1988) and up support both American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) and binary forms of DXF.
For these reasons many CAD applications use the DWG format which can be licensed from Autodesk or non-natively from the Open Design Alliance.
Most CAD systems and many vector graphics packages support the import and export of DXF files, notably Adobe products, Inkscape, and Blender.
"[6] Because comprehensive documentation does not exist,[3] consideration is often given to alternative open file formats such as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG, defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)), Design Web Format (DWF, defined by Autodesk[7]), or even Encapsulated PostScript (EPS, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard 29112:2018).