<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ESP-r can import gbXML files assuming the usual caveats that the originating</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> tool and user created something that ESP-r can work with - for example limited</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> numbers of child surfaces, entity names that are reasonably terse as well as</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> zone forms which are within ESP-r's limits.  <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Some CAD tools generate gbXML files that are poorly formed.<br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ESP-r reads in DXF files that use specific entity types and naming</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> conventions. The easiest way to see what is accommodated is to take <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> an ESP-r model and export it to DXF and have a look at it.  DXF has such <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> limited attribution and is so ancient that it is rarely used any more.</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> The email does not give clues as to what specifically was the nature</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> of the [DXF but it doesn't work].</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> -Jon Hand<br> </div> <div id="appendonsend"></div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk <esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk> on behalf of Miguel Angel Ramirez Robledo <MiguelAngel_RamirezRobledo@outlook.com><br> <b>Sent:</b> 30 January 2020 00:11<br> <b>To:</b> esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk <esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk><br> <b>Subject:</b> [esp-r] CAD Mdels</font> <div> </div> </div> <style type="text/css" style="display:none">  </style> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <div style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> hi, community of ESP-r.   </div> <div style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Does somebody know how I could import a CAD geometry on esp-r? I've tried to import a format DXF but it doesn't work. </div> <br> </div> <div id="x_Signature"> <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:#0078d7; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">C. Miguel Angel Ramirez Robledo </span></p> <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:#0078d7; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"> </span></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>