Developers Tips

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Use of DXF files in Dips. 5.0. Developer’s Tips. In this column I’ll be dealing with the new added functionality of exporting Autocad DXF files. from Dips. …

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Use of DXF files in Dips 5.0
Developer’s Tips
In this column I’ll be dealing with the new added functionality of exporting Autocad DXF files from Dips. To get this functionality you must download the latest Dips update from our website. There is no cost for people that have purchased version 5 of Dips.
Autodesk’s Autocad product has become the standard for CAD in both the civil and mining engineering communities. Most companies now store the excavation geometry of a project electronically in the form of CAD drawing files. Autocad has long had the ability to import and export geometry to and from other sources through an ASCII text file format called DXF. The DXF file format has become an industry standard in such a way that all CAD packages support it. In recognizing Autocad’s leading role in the CAD industry, Rocscience has long maintained the ability to import and export DXF files and has modeled its own CAD interface after Autocad. This makes the transition of geometry to Rocscience products both quick and easy.
The most common technical support question we received when we released version 5 of Dips was: Where has the Autocad DXF export gone? Our intent…

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