Fileformat DXF

Introduction
Screenshots
License
Download
Userinterface
Function Index
White Papers
Community
Contact

no help

DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)

AutoCAD DXF is a file format, developed by Autodesk, in order to facilitate AutoCAD drawings to be opened by other CAD programs.
AutoCAD's native file format is DWG (Drawing) and couldn't be opened by other CAD programs. Therefore the DXF was introduced (Drawing exchange format) as standard ASCII text files to store the vector data of the drawing. The DXF fileformat can can handle a large variety of different elements. The LayoutEditor only supports element which are relevant to IC/MEM layout. Other elements are ignored. A warning is displayed in these cases.
There are a plenty of different versions of this format. It was tried to support the most of them, but it is possible that there are version, which work not properly.

DXF: Handling of layernames

The DXF file format only knows layernames. By opening a DXF file the LayoutEditor analysed the used layers. If a used layername already exist in the current setup, this layer is used. Otherwise the first unused layer is renamed.

DXF: save regular polygon as circles

The DXF file format allows to handle circles. Circles are not supported by the LayoutEditor as basic elements, there are stored as regular polygons. By activating this option any regular polygon with more than 8 points will be saved as a circle element and not as a polygon.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -