Analysis of DXF file with an application to 3D graphic display

Author

Shang, Wen ; Zhong, Jun ; Yan, Qin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. & Electr. Eng., Suzhou Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Suzhou, China

fYear

2012

fDate

6-8 June 2012

Firstpage

611

Lastpage

615

Abstract

DXF(Drawing Exchange File) in AutoCAD is very popular as a graphic file format. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of DXF file and its application to 3D display of planar graphs, such as advertisement words, for the convenience of numerical control (NC) processing. Analyses of all kinds of graphic primitives in DXF files are studied. The 3D display technology based on OpenGL is presented. Three-dimensional display effects of different kinds of planar graphs are shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the analysis and display method. This method has been successfully applied to decorative design, advertising, industrial design, CNC operation, etc., with a friendly and intuitive human-machine interaction.

Keywords

CAD; graphical user interfaces; human computer interaction; 3D graphic display; AutoCAD; CNC operation; DXF file; OpenGL; advertising; decorative design; drawing exchange file; graphic file format; human-machine interaction; industrial design; planar graphs; Fitting; Graphics; Solid modeling; Splines (mathematics); Surface treatment; Three dimensional displays; Vectors; 3-dimensional display; DXF; human-machine interaction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Automation (ICIA), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenyang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2238-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2236-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICInfA.2012.6246886

Filename

6246886