Ellipses

autocad_entity: autocad_ellipse

Ellipse features are point features used to represent both AutoCAD circle and AutoCAD ellipse entities. The point serves as the center of the ellipse.

Ellipse entities with an autocad_primary_axis equal to the autocad_secondary_axis are stored within the drawing file as a circle entity. Additional attributes specify the rotation, major axis, and minor axis of the ellipse.

Tip   The ArcStroker transformer can be used to convert an ellipse to a polygon. This is useful for representing ellipses in systems that do not support them directly.

Attribute Name

Content

autocad_primary_axis

The length of the semi-major axis in ground units.

Range: 64-bit floating point number > 0

Default: No default

autocad_rotation

The rotation of the major axis. The rotation is measured in degrees counterclockwise up from horizontal.

Range: -360.0..360.0

Default: 0

autocad_secondary_axis

The length of the semi-minor axis in ground units.

Range: 64-bit floating point number > 0

Default: No default