Here is a general conversion table showing how DXF™/DWG™ entities are mapped to think3 ones.
| DXF entity |
think3 entity | Notes — Options controlling conversion |
| Point | Point |
— |
| Line | Line |
— |
| Arc | Circular Arc |
— |
| Circle | Circular Arc | Arc angle = 360° |
| Ellipse | Ellipse |
— |
| NURBS | Spline |
— |
| Dimension | Dimension | If the Dimension/label check box under Disassemble on loading is selected in the Load category of the DXF/DWG Conversion Options, the dimension is exploded into its component entities. |
| Oblique Dimension | Group |
— |
| Leader Dimension with Spline leader line | Group |
— |
| Leader | Label | If the Dimension/label check box under Disassemble on loading is selected in the Load category of the DXF/DWG Conversion Options, the dimension is exploded into its component entities. |
| Text | Text | True type fonts are correctly converted. |
| X-Hatch | X-Hatch |
— |
| Block | Group |
— |
| Group | Component entities |
— |
| Mtext | Text |
— |
| Polyline | Group |
— |
| Trace/Solid | Lines + X-Hatch |
— |
| Shape | Group |
— |
| Spline | Spline |
— |
| Xline | Line |
— |
| Viewport | View |
— |
| Body | Ignored |
— |
| Mline | Ignored |
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| Line Type | Line Type | Map table defined in the General- Line Type category of the DXF/DWG Conversion Options. |
| Line Weight | Line Width | While mapping from AutoCAD® to think3, the nearest possible line width supported by the think3 application will be applied. |
| Attrib | UDC/UDP + Texts |
— |
| Layers | Layers | Map table defined in the
General-
Layers category of the DXF/DWG Conversion Options. If no mapping is defined, the layer name is preserved as it is. |
| Color | Color | Map table defined in the General- Colors category of the DXF/DWG Conversion Options. |
| Region | Group | In AutoCAD®, regions are two-dimensional enclosed areas with closed loop that have physical properties such as centroid and area. In think3, regions will be created by combining curves such as lines, polylines, circles, arcs, ellipses, elliptical arcs and splines. |
| Table | Group | In think3, it will be translated as basic entities such as closed curves and text. |
| External Reference | X-ref |
— |
| Raster Image reference | Image |
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For details on the conversion of objects belonging to the Paper spaces and to the
Model space, see the
Load category in the DXF/DWG Conversion Options.