Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!agate!eos!labrea!csli!rustcat 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 Lines: 19 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