Module iges 

IGES exchange.

The format is ANSI Y14.26M / IGES 5.3, a fixed-column deck from the 1980s, read and written here from the published specification.

Structs

IgesExport

A written IGES file, and what the writer left out of it.

IgesImport

A read IGES file: the document, the shapes found, and the report.

IgesReport

What an import brought in, and what it left behind.

Constants

SUPPORTED_ENTITIES

The entity types the reader and writer translate, by number and by the name the specification gives each. Refusal messages quote the names.

Functions

entity_name

The specification’s name for an entity type, where this module knows it.

read_iges

Read an IGES file’s geometry.

read_iges_file

Read an IGES file’s geometry from disk, as read_iges reads a deck, with its external references (416) resolved against the files in the same directory.

write_iges

Write a document’s solids and sheets as an IGES file.

write_iges_reported

Write a document as write_iges does, saying what it left out.