EZDXF-BROWSE-ACIS(1)

💖 NAME 💖

ezdxf browse-acis — a PyQt ACIS entity content browser for SAT/SAB debugging ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ezdxf browse-acis [-h] [-l LINE] [-g HANDLE] [FILE]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so bestie, here's the tea 🫖 — the DXF format stores modern solid geometry as SAT data for DXF R2000–R2010, and as SAB data for DXF R2013 and later. This command shows you the content of these entities, and it also lets you export the raw data for further processing. no cap, it's giving forensic investigator but make it geometry 🔥

✨ ENTITY VIEW ✨

The entity view is a read-only text editor, so you can't mess anything up — but you can select and copy parts of the text into the clipboard. 💅

Every ACIS content entity gets an id assigned automatically, which makes the data way more readable — by default, AutoCAD and BricsCAD do not use ids for ACIS entities. The id shows up as a decimal number in parenthesis after the entity name. And the ~ is a shortcut for a null-pointer. iykyk 💀

🎀 MENUS AND SHORTCUTS 🎀

File Menu

• Open DXF file... Ctrl+O
• Reload DXF file Ctrl+R
• Export Current Entity View... Ctrl+E — exports the parsed content of the entity view as a text file
• Export Raw SAT/SAB Data... Ctrl+W — exports the raw SAT data as a text file and the raw SAB data as a binary file for further processing
• Quit Ctrl+Q

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

💜 POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS 💜

• FILE — the DXF file to browse

🌈 OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS 🌈

• -h, --help — shows a help message and exits
• -g HANDLE, --handle HANDLE — go to an entity by HANDLE; HANDLE has to be a hex value without any prefix, like fefe

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🌟 ENVIRONMENT 🌟

See ezdxf(1).

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🍓 FILES 🍓

See ezdxf(1).

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🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

Show and export the SAT or SAB content of ACIS entities:

$ ezdxf browse-acis 3dsolid.dxf

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

ezdxf(1)

ezdxf-audit(1), ezdxf-draw(1), ezdxf-view(1), ezdxf-browse-acis(1), ezdxf-strip(1), ezdxf-config(1), ezdxf-info(1), ezdxf-hpgl(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came from the User Commands section, dated May 2024, and it's the EZDXF-BROWSE-ACIS(1) era of the manual — go forth and debug those solids, you absolute icon 👑✨