The Intermediate Data Format (IDF) is a data exchange format for printed wire assemblies. IDF is available in versions 2.0 and 3.0. ECAD supports the import and export of both versions of IDF file format.

The IDF 2.0 specification does not support z-axis offset component placement information. When you export information from Creo Parametric to the IDF 2.0 format, all z-axis offset information is lost.

However, IDF 3.0 supports z-offset for component placement.