Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF (ACAD) Geometry Support

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Geometry

Supported?

Notes

Aggregate

Yes

Will be written as a block.

Arc

Yes

 

Box

Yes

 

BRep Solid

Yes

May be written as a block.

BSpline

Yes

 

Clothoid

No

Will be stroked.

Composite Solid

Yes

May be written as a block.

Composite Surface

Yes

 

Coordinate Precision

Full

 

CSG Solid

Yes

 

Donut

Yes

May be written as a block.

Ellipse

Yes

 

Extrusion

Yes

 

Face

Yes

 

Geometry Definitions and Instances

Yes

 

Georeferencing

Native/FME (.prj)

 

Hierarchical Geometries

Yes

Will be flattened, written as a block.

Homogeneous Aggregates

Yes

Will be flattened, written as a block.

Line

Yes

 

Measures

No

 

Mesh

Yes

 

MultiArea

Yes

May be written as a block.

MultiCurve

Yes

Will be written as a block.

Multiple Geometries

No

 

MultiPoint

Yes

Will be written as a block.

MultiSolid

Yes

May be written as a block.

MultiSurface

Yes

May be written as a block.

MultiText

Yes

Will be written as a block.

Null

No

Only for specific pieces of data (for example, system variables).

Oriented Arc

Yes

 

Path

Yes

 

Point Cloud

No

Will be written as boundary.

Point

Yes

 

Polygon

Yes

 

Raster

Yes

 

Rectangle Face

Yes

 

Surface Normals

Yes

 

Surface Sidedness

Single-sided

 

Text

Yes

May be written as Text or Multi-Line Text (MText) depending on the value of autocad_entity (autocad_text or autocad_multi_text, respectively.) If IFMEText contains multiple lines and autocad_entity is set to autocad_text, then each line will be written as a separate autocad_text feature.

Textures

Yes

 

Traits

No

 

Triangle Fan

Yes

 

Triangle Strip

Yes

 

Z values

Yes