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■ Extruded area solids
■ Geometric sets
■ Face-based and surface-based models
■ Simple, trimmed, and composite curves
■ Simple surfaces
■ Simple parametric, arbitrary and derived profiles
■ Boolean clipping results and element-level voiding and projection CSG operations
■ Basic styled and mapped items
■ Property sets, including simple and complex properties
Unsupported Entities
■ Voided BReps
■ Bounded half-space solids
■ Complex parametric profiles
■ BSpline curves
■ Curve styles
■ Swept surfaces
■ Textures and complex lighting
■ Loading of server-based IFC models
See also:
■ “
IFC File Reader Options” on page 459
IGES File Reader
The file reader uses the Open CASCADE libraries to read and tessellate IGS and IGES files up to and including
IGES 5.3.
Supported Entities
■ Groups
■ Colors
■ Planes
■ Parametric spline, ruled, B-spline, offset, bounded, trimmed and plane surfaces and surfaces of revolution.
■ Tabulated cylinders
■ Solids and manifold solids
■ Shells
■ Faces
Unsupported Entities
■ Points
■ Lines
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