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XLines

autocad_entity: autocad_xline

Features with autocad_entity set to autocad_xline are stored in and read from drawing files as an FME feature with two coordinates representing a line. The reader and writer modules automatically convert the xline to and from its unit vector representation into a line.

There are no attributes specific to this type of entity.