IGES to MI Entity Mappings
This chapter contains an entity mapping table, which lists all the entities supported by the IGES 2D Translator. Most entities are represented pictorially.
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Polymarker
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Line
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Line
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Circular arc
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Arc or circle
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Conic arcs
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Elliptical, Hyperbolic, Parabolic
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Spline (SPL)
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Parametric splines
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Non-linear
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Spline (SPL)
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Linear
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Polyline
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B-spline (non-rational)
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1. B-spline (BSPL—depends on current B-spline setting) or
2. Spline (SPL)
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B-spline (rational)
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Spline (SPL)
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Offset curves
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Line or arc or spline (SPL)
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Copious data
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Polymarker, lines or leader (without arrow)
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Composite curve
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Composite curve
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Flag note
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Text and lines
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Leader arrow
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Leader arrow
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Point dimension
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Leader line and circle, arc or composite curve and text
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Ordinate dimension
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Leader lines, geometric and text
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Linear dimension
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Linear dimension
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Radius dimension
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Radius dimension
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Diameter dimension
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Diameter dimension
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Angular dimension
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Angular dimension
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General note
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Text
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General label
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Text and leader lines
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General symbol
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Leader lines, geometry entities and text
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Symbol
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IGES 1001
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IGES 1002
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Creo Elements/Direct Drafting binary text fonts (delivered with IGES software hp_i1001_v(c) hp_i1002_v(c)
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Hatch (defined by section) IGES Rev 2.0
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Lines or leader line (without arrow)
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Hatch (defined by section area) IGES Rev 3.0
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Hatch
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Subfigure definition and singular subfigure instance
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Assembly hierarchy element part
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Drawing scale
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Drawing scale
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Group
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Group info attributes
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View along Z axis
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View to plane X, Y
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Drawing
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Drawing
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Levels
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Layer info attributes
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Colors
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Black
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White (since black is invisible in Creo Elements/Direct Drafting)
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White
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White
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Red(1)
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Red
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Yellow
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Yellow
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Green
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Green
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Cyan
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Cyan
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Magenta
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Magenta
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Blue
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Blue
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Color Definition
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RGB Color
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Line font (The five IGES line fonts are mapped to eight of the MI linetypes)
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Solid
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Solid
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Dashed
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Dashed
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Phantom
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Phantom
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Center line
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Dot center
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Dotted
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Dotted
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Blanked
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Color = black (since black is invisible in ME10, text info is added to the entity)
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Visible
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Normal translation
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Lineweight (geometry) (depending on config. switch)
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Pensize / Linesize
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(1) Shading is used to give the effect of different colors.