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Supported File Formats
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) files
Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA-FS) files
Stereo Lithography (STL) files
Drawing Interchange (DXF) files
MVS files
IGES format
The following (most common used) entities are supported:
  • Points/vectors
    • Point Entity (Type 116)
    • Direction Entity (Type 123)
  • Curves
    • Circular Arc Entity (Type 100)
    • Composite Curve Entity (Type 102)
    • Conic Arc Entity (Type 104)
    • Copious Data Entity (Type 106)
    • Line Entity (Type 110)
    • Parametric Spline Curve Entity (Type 112)
    • Rational B-Spline Curve Entity (Type 126)
  • Surfaces
    • Parametric Spline Surface Entity (Type 114)
    • Ruled Surface Entity (Type 118)
    • Surface of Revolution Entity (Type 120)
    • Tabulated Cylinder Entity (Type 122)
    • Rational B-Spline Surface Entity (Type 128)
    • Offset Surface Entity (Type 140)
  • Simple Surfaces
    • Plane Entity (Type 108)
    • Plane Surface Entity (Type 190)
    • Right Circular Cylindrical Surface Entity (Type 192)
    • Right Circular Conical Surface Entity (Type 194)
    • Spherical Surface Entity (Type 196)
    • Toroidal Surface Entity (Type 198)
  • Trimmed surfaces
    • Boundary Entity (Type 141)
    • Curve on a Parametric Surface Entity (Type 142)
    • Bounded Surface Entity (Type 143)
    • Trimmed (Parametric) Surface Entity (Type 144)
  • Topology
    • Manifold Solid B-Rep Object (MSBO) Entity (Type 186, Form 0)
    • Vertex List Entity (Type 502, Form 1)
    • Edge List Entity (Type 504, Form 1)
    • Loop Entity (Type 508, Form 1)
    • Face Entity (Type 510, Form 1)
    • Shell Entity (Type 514, Form 1)
  • Subfigures
    • Subfigure Definition Entity (Type 308)
    • Singular Subfigure Instance Entity (Type 408)
    • Rectangular Array Subfigure Instance Entity (Type 412)
    • Circular Array Subfigure Instance Entity (Type 414)
  • Non-geometric entities
    • Transformation Matrix Entity (Type 124)
    • Color Definition Entity (Type 314)
    • View Entity (Type 410)
VDA format
All the entities defined in VDA surface interface (VDA-FS) version 2.0 are supported:
  • Points/vectors
    • Point - POINT
    • Point sequence - PSET
    • Point vector sequence - MDI
  • Curves
    • Circle/circular arc - CIRCLE
    • Curve - CURVE
    • Curve on surface - CONS
  • Surfaces
    • Surface - SURF
    • Bounded surface - FACE
  • Topology
    • Topology of surface - TOP
    • Group of elements - GROUP
  • Non-geometric entities
    • Transformation matrix - TMAT
    • Transformation list - TLIST
    • HEADER
    • END
    • BEGINSET
    • ENDSET
STL format
Both ASCII and binary STL format supported.
DXF format
The following DXF tags are supported (both in ASCII or binary file format):
  • Points
    • POINT
  • Curves
    • ARC
    • CIRCLE
    • ELLIPSE
    • LINE
    • SPLINE
    • PolyLines
    • POLYLINE
    • LWPOLYLINE
    • MLINE
    • VERTEX
  • Surfaces
    • SOLID
    • 3DFACE
    • LWPOLYLINE
  • Subfigures
    • BLOCK
    • ENDBLK
    • INSERT
  • Non-geometric entities
    • LAYER
    • SEQEND
    • EOF
MVS format
"MVS" is our native binary file format.

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