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From: rustcat@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Would like to know the meaning of an achronym
Keywords: CAD, DXF
Message-ID: <4536@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 10 Jul 88 02:53:16 GMT
References: <246@tahoma.UUCP>
Reply-To: rustcat@csli.UUCP (Vallury Prabhakar)
Organization: Stanford University
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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