What is GPX?
GPX (GPS Exchange Format) is an open, XML-based schema for exchanging GPS data such as waypoints, routes, and tracks between devices and applications.
GPX models data through three primary elements: waypoints (individual named points of interest), routes (an ordered list of routepoints describing a planned path), and tracks (recorded paths made of one or more segments of trackpoints, often carrying timestamps and elevation). It is the common tongue of handheld GPS units, fitness watches, and outdoor apps like Garmin, Strava, and Komoot. It is a point- and line-oriented format built around navigation, not a general-purpose polygon or attribute-table format.
What is DXF?
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format) is an open CAD data format created by Autodesk for exchanging drawings between AutoCAD and other CAD applications.
DXF stores CAD entities on named layers and is a common interchange format for survey drawings, site plans, and engineering geometry. GeoConvert safely imports ASCII DXF points, lines, polylines, arcs, circles, SOLID/3DFACE entities, and straight-edged HATCH boundaries; arcs, circles, and bulges are linearized with a warning. TEXT/MTEXT, INSERT or block-contained geometry, RAY/XLINE, ELLIPSE/SPLINE, and unknown or incomplete entities are rejected instead of being silently dropped. DXF has no GIS attribute table, so geometry and layer names come across but arbitrary feature attributes do not; AutoCAD Binary DXF is not supported by the browser engine.
Why convert GPX to DXF?
Field-collected GPS points and tracks can become CAD geometry for surveying, mapping, or design — useful when GPS data needs to meet a drafting workflow.
Coordinate systems
The GPX specification fixes all coordinates to WGS84 latitude/longitude with elevation in meters, so like KML it carries no projection information and any exported data is expressed in EPSG:4326.
DXF is a CAD format and carries no coordinate reference system — coordinates are plain model units. When converting to or from GIS formats you often need to know (or assign) the drawing’s real-world CRS; GeoConvert assumes WGS84 (EPSG:4326) only if you ask to reproject.
What to watch out for
- GPX is WGS84; reproject to a projected CRS (meters/feet) before export so the drawing is usable in CAD.
- For a single populated GPX layer, waypoints become points and tracks/routes become polylines. With multiple layers, GeoConvert converts the first non-empty layer and warns; use GeoJSON first to retain them all.
- GPX fields such as timestamps and elevation are not written to DXF, which has no attribute table.
How to convert GPX to DXF
- Drag your GPX file (.gpx) into the converter above, or click to browse.
- Confirm the source is GPX and choose DXF as the output format.
- Optionally pick a target coordinate system (EPSG) to reproject.
- Click Convert and download your DXF file. Everything runs in your browser.
Frequently asked questions
- Are elevation and time kept?
- No — DXF has no attribute table, so only geometry and layers are exported.
- Should I reproject the GPS data?
- Yes. Reproject from WGS84 to a projected CRS so the drawing has real-world meters or feet.