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Esri Shapefile (esrishape) Geometry Support

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Geometry

Supported?

Notes

Aggregates (IFMEAggregate) Yes  

Arcs (IFMEArc)

No  
Boxes (IFMEBox) Yes Converted to Surface on write.
BRep Solids (IFMEBRepSolid) Yes Converted to Surface on write.

Clothoids (IFMEClothoid)

No  
Composite Solids (IFMECompositeSolid) Yes Converted to MultiSolid on write.
Composite Surfaces (IFMECompositeSurface) Yes Converted to MultiSurface on write.
Coordinate Precision Full 64-bit floating point coordinates.
CSG Solids (IFMECSGSolid) Yes Converted to MultiSolid on write.

Donuts (IFMEDonut)

Yes  

Ellipses (IFMEEllipse)

No  
Extrusions (IFMEExtrusion) Yes Converted to Surface on write.
Faces (IFMEFace) Yes Multipatch
Feature Table (IFMEFeatureTable) No  
Geometry Definitions and Instances No  
Georeferencing Native .shp for world coordinate locations, .prj for coordinate system.
Hierarchical Geometries No  
Homogeneous Aggregates Yes  

Lines (IFMELIne)

Yes  
Measures Yes Depends on the dimension set. The dimension only has one value per file.
Meshes (IFMEMesh) Yes Converted to MultiSurface on write.

MultiArea (IFMEMultiArea)

Yes  

MultiCurve (IFMEMultiCurve)

No  
Multiple Geometries No  

MultiPoint (IFMEMultiPoint)

Yes  
MultiSolid (IFMEMultiSolid) Yes Converted to MultiSurface on write.
MultiSurface (IFMEMultiSurface) Yes Multipatch

MultiText (IFMEMultiText)

No  

Nulls (IFMENull)

Yes  

Oriented Arcs (IFMEOrientedArc)

No  

Paths (IFMEPath)

No  
Point Clouds (IFMEPointCloud) No  

Points (IFMEPoint)

Yes  

Polygons (IFMEPolygon)

Yes  
Rasters (IFMERaster) No  
Rectangle Faces (IFMERectangleFace) Yes Multipatch
Surface Normals No  
Surface Sidedness No  

Text (IFMEText)

No  
Textures No  
Traits No  
Triangle Fans (IFMETriangleFan) Yes Multipatch
Triangle Strips (IFMETriangleStrip) Yes Multipatch
Z values Yes Depends on the dimension set. The dimension only has one value per file.