jwf0978@tahoma.UUCP (John W. Fawcett) (07/08/88)
Recently we saw a copy of an advertisement (source unknown) for a new CAD tool called MICROGRAFX. It referenced a "defacto standard" called DXF. Does anyone know what this standard is and where we can get any more information about it? Thanks in advance. John W. Fawcett Voice: (206) 237-2564 Boeing Commercial Airplanes UUCP: ..!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!jwf0978 P.O. Box 3707, M/S 66-04 Seattle, WA 98124-2207
rustcat@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar) (07/10/88)
In article <246@tahoma.UUCP> jwf0978@tahoma.UUCP (John W. Fawcett) writes:
# Recently we saw a copy of an advertisement (source unknown) for a new CAD
# tool called MICROGRAFX. It referenced a "defacto standard" called DXF.
# Does anyone know what this standard is and where we can get any more
# information about it? Thanks in advance.
DXF (drawing interchange) is a file format using standard ASCII characters.
It was developed by AutoDESK in order to make AutoCAD drawings translatable
to other CAD package formats easily.
A DXF format output file from AutoCAD typically comprises of 5 sections,
Header, Tables, Blocks, Entities and EOF. Detailed information about all
this and much, much more is provided in the AutoCAD Reference manual on
Pages 367-380 (Appendix C).
Hope this helps. Enjoy.
-- Vallury Prabhakar
-- rustcat@csli.stanford.edu