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IGES Object Type Numbers and Titles

 

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The complete list of the standard IGES entities is listed in numerical order below. The brief definitions below are quoted / paraphrased directly from IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) version 5.3 specification.

 

Type

Form

Name

Description

0

 

Null Entity

The Null Entity type is intended to be ignored by a processor.  When encountered by a processor, this entity shall be skipped over and not processed.

100

 

Circular Arc Type

A circular arc is a connected portion of a circle which has distinct start and terminate points.  The definition space coordinate system is always chosen so that the circular arc lies in a plane either coincident with, or parallel to, the Xt and Yt plane. Supported in FRED as a Circular Arc.

102

 

Composite Curve Entity

A composite curve is a continuous curve that results from the grouping of certain individual constituent entities into a logical unit.    A composite curve is defined as an ordered list of entities consisting of point, connect point, and parameterized curve entities (excluding the Composite Curve Entity).

104

 

Conic Arc Type

A conic arc is a bounded connected portion of a conic curve which has distinct start and terminate points.  The parent conic curve is either an ellipse, a parabola, or a hyperbola.

106

1-3

Copious Data Entity

This entity stores data points in the form of pairs, triples, or sextuples. An interpolation flag value signifies which of these forms is being used.

106

11-13

Linear Path Entity

The linear path is an ordered set of points in either 2- or 3- dimensional space.  These points define a series of linear segments along the consecutive points of the path.

106

20-21

Centerline Entity

The Centerline Entity takes one of two forms. The first appears as crosshairs and is normally used in conjunction with circles. The second type is a construction between 2 positions.

106

31-38

Section Entity

A Section Entity is a defined as a Copious Data Entity.  The form number describes how the data are to be interpreted.  These descriptions are included for compatibility with previous versions of the specification.  The Sectioned Area Entity (Type 230) provides a more compact method for transferring this information.

106

40

Witness Line Entity

A Witness Line Entity is a Copious Data Entity that contains one or more straight line segments associated with drafting entities of various types.

106

63

Simple Closed Planar Curve Entity

A Simple Closed Planar Curve defines the boundary of a region in the X-Y coordinate space.

108

 

Plane Entity

The Plane Entity can be used to represent an unbounded plane, as well  as a bounded portion of a plane.

110

0

Line Entity

A line is a bounded, connected portion of a straight line which has distinct start and termination points.

110

1-2

Line Entity

Form 1 is a semi-bounded line bounded on one end and unbounded on the other end.  Form 2 is an unbounded line, i.e. an infinite line.

112

 

Parametric Spline Curve Entity

The Parametric Spline Curve is a sequence of parametric polynomial segments.

114

 

Parametric Spline Surface Entity

The Parametric Spline Surface is a grid of parametric polynomial patches.

116

 

Point Entity

A point is defined by its coordinates in definition space.

118

 

Ruled Surface Entity

A ruled surface is formed by moving a line connecting points of equal relative arc length (Form 0) or equal relative parametric value (Form 1) on two parametric curves from a start point to a terminate point on the curves.  The parametric curves may be points, lines, conics, parametric splines, rational B-Splines, composite curves, or any parametric curves defined in the specification.

120

 

Surface of Revolution Entity

A surface of revolution is defined by an axis of rotation (which shall be a line entity (Type 110, Form 0), a generatrix, and start and terminate rotation angles.  The surface is created by rotating the generatrix about the axis of rotation through the start and terminating angles.

122

 

Tabulated Cylinder Entity

A tabulated cylinder is a surface formed by moving a line segment called the generatrix parallel to itself along a curve called the directrix.  This curve may be a line, circular arc, conic arc, parametric spline curve, rational B-spline curve, composite curve, or any parametric curve defined in this specification.

123

 

Direction Entity

A direction entity is a non-zero vector in Euclidean 3-space that is defined by its three components with respect to the coordinate axes.

124

 

Transformation Matrix Entity

The transformation matrix entity transforms three-row column vectors by means of a matrix multiplication and then a vector addition.

125

 

Flash Entity

A flash entity is a point in the ZT=0 plane that defines the location of a specific instance of a particular closed area.

126

 

Rational B-Spline Curve Entity

The rational B-Spline curve may represent analytic curves of general interest.

128

 

Rational B-Spline Surface Entity

The rational B-spline surface represents various analytical surfaces of general interest.

130

 

Offset Curve Entity

The Offset Curve Entity defines the data necessary to determine the curve offset from a given base curve C.

132

 

Connect Point Entity

A Connect Point Entity defines a point of connection for zero, one, or more entities.

134

 

Node Entity

The node entity is a geometric point used in the definition of a finite element.

136

 

Finite Element Entity

A finite element is defined by an element topology (i.e. node connectivity), along with physical and material properties.

138

 

Nodal Displacement and Rotation Entity

The nodal displacement and rotation entity is used to communicate finite element post processing data.  It contains the incremental displacement and rotations (expressed in radians) for each load case and each node in the model.

140

 

Offset Surface Entity

The offset surface is a surface defined in terms of an existing surface.

141

 

Boundary Entity

The Boundary Entity identifies a surface boundary consisting of a set of curves lying on the surface.

142

 

Curve on a Parametric Surface Entity

The curve on a parametric surface entity associates a given curve with a surface and identifies the curve as lying on the surface.

143

 

Bounded Surface Entity

The bounded surface entity is used to represent trimmed surfaces.  The surfaces and trimming curves are assumed to be represented parametrically.

144

 

Trimmed (Parametric) Surface Entity

Equivalent to a Trimmed Parametric surface in FRED.

146

 

Nodal Results Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

148

 

Element Results Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

150

 

Block Entity

Represents a rectangular block. Not supported in FRED.

152

 

Right Angular Wedge Entity

A 3D block object with four rectangular faces and two quadratic faces. Not supported in FRED.

154

 

Right Circular Entity

A 3D cylinder object. Not supported in FRED.

156

 

Right Circular Cone Frustum Entity

A 3D cone object which may or may not come to a point. Not supported in FRED.

158

 

Sphere Entity

A sphere object defined as a point and a radius in 3 dimensions. Not supported in FRED.

160

 

Torus Entity

A circle revolved around an axis in the same plane as the circle. Not supported in FRED.

162

 

Solid of Revolution Entity

A solid 3D object formed by rotating a planar shape through an angle about an axis. Not supported in FRED.

164

 

Solid of Linear Extrusion Entity

A solid 3D object formed by extruding a planar shape through a distance. Not supported in FRED.

168

 

Ellipsoid Entity

A solid 3D object formed by rotating an ellipse about its major axis 180 degrees. Not supported in FRED.

180

 

Boolean Tree Entity

An IGES entity that supports Boolean logical operations. Not supported in FRED.

182

 

Selected Component Entity

An IGES entity that supports a selected component of a CSG solid. Not supported in FRED.

184

 

Solid Assembly Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

186

 

Manifold Solid B-Rep Object Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

190

 

Plane Surface Entity

A plane surface. Not supported in FRED; the FRED plane is defined differently. This type is neither read in nor written out.

192

 

Right Circular Cylindrical Surface Entity

A cylinder defined by a point, a direction, and a radius. Not supported in FRED.

194

 

Right Circular Conical Surface Entity

A cone defined by a point, an axis direction, a radius, and an angle. Not supported in FRED.

196

 

Spherical Surface Entity

A sphere defined by a point and a surface (not a solid). Not supported in FRED.

198

 

Toroidal Surface Entity

A surface defined by a point, an axis, and two radii. Not supported in FRED.

202

 

Angular Dimension Entity

IGES entity that represents the annotation of an angle measurement. Not supported in FRED.

204

 

Curve Dimension Entity

IGES entity that represents the annotation of the length of a curve. Not supported in FRED.

206

 

Diameter Dimension Entity

IGES entity that represents the annotation of the diameter of a circular arc. Not supported in FRED.

208

 

Flag Note Entity

IGES entity that represents an annotation flag. Not supported in FRED.

210

 

General Label Entity

IGES entity that represents a general note. Not supported in FRED.

212

 

General Note Entity

IGES entity that represents a set of text strings. Not supported in FRED.

213

 

New General Note Entity

IGES entity like type 212 but able to accommodate more text characteristics. Not supported in FRED.

214

1-12

Leader (Arrow) Entity

IGES entity representing an arrow head point. Not supported in FRED.

216

 

Linear Dimension Entity

IGES entity that represents a dimension between two points. Not supported in FRED.

218

 

Ordinate Dimension Entity

IGES entity that represents a set of dimensions from a common base line. Not supported in FRED.

220

 

Point Dimension Entity

IGES entity that represents a text string surrounded by a circle or hexagon, annotating a point. Not supported in FRED.

222

0-1

Radius Dimension Entity

IGES entity that represents a point where annotating text is surrounded by a circle. Not supported in FRED.

228

0-1

General Symbol Entity

IGES entity that represents a set of notes that annotate a point, surrounded by a geometry entity. Not supported in FRED.

230

 

Sectioned Area Entity

IGES entity that represents an area that is filled with a line pattern. Not supported in FRED.

302

 

Associativity Definition Entity

IGES entity that represents a group. Not compatible with the FRED group.

304

1-2

Line Font Definition Entity

IGES entity that represents a line font. Not supported by FRED.

306

 

MACRO Definition Entity

IGES entity that represents a macro. Not supported by FRED.

308

 

Subfigure Definition Entity

IGES entity that allows for multiple instances of the same object. Not supported by FRED.

310

 

Text Font Definition Entity

IGES entity that defines the appearance of characters in a text font. Not supported by FRED.

312

 

Text Display Template Entity

IGES entity that sets parameters for displaying information from another entity. Not supported by FRED.

314

 

Color Definition Entity

IGES entity that stores the RGB color information for an entity. Not supported in FRED.

316

 

Units Data Entity

IGES entity that stores information about the unit's of a model in an IGES file. Not supported by FRED.

320

 

Network Subfigure Definition Entity

IGES entity similar to the type 308 subfigure definition, used to define a specialized subfigure. Not supported by FRED.

322

 

Attribute Table Definition Entity

IGES entity that defines a table of attributes for an entity. Not supported by FRED.

402

 

Associativity Instance Entity

Identifies the type of associativity relation between two entities. Not supported by FRED.

402

1

Group Associativity

IGES entity that allows a collection of entities to be maintained as one. Not supported by FRED.

402

3

Views Visible Associativity

IGES entity that defines an associativity to a view entity. Not supported by FRED.

402

4

Views Visible, Color, Line Weight Associativity

IGES entity that defines an associativity between view entities of differing display styles. Not supported by FRED.

402

5

Entity Label Display Associativity

IGES entity that defines an association between displays for entity labels. Not supported by FRED.

402

7

Group Without Back Pointers Associativity

IGES entity that defines an association between groups without back pointers. Not supported by FRED.

402

9

Single Parent Associativity

IGES entity that defines an association between a single parent and multiple entities. Not supported by FRED.

402

12

External Reference File Index Associativity

IGES entity that defines an association between definitions in separate files. Not supported by FRED.

402

13

Dimensioned Geometry Associativity

Deprecated by type 402 form 21. Not supported by FRED.

402

14

Ordered Group with Back Pointers Associativity

IGES entity that defines an association between ordered groups with back pointers. Not supported by FRED.

402

15

Ordered Group, no Back Pointers Associativity

IGES entity that defines an association between ordered groups without back pointers. Not supported by FRED.

402

16

Planar Associativity

IGES entity that defines an association between coplanar entities. Not supported by FRED.

402

18

Flow Associativity

IGES entity that defines an association between two entities with a flow path. Not supported by FRED.

402

19

Segmented Views Visible Associativity

IGES entity that defines an association between display parameters for two or more curves. Not supported by FRED.

402

20

Piping Flow Associativity

IGES entity that defines an association for a single fluid flow path. Not supported by FRED.

402

21

Dimensioned Geometry Associativity

IGES entity that defines an association between a dimension entity and the geometry entities it is dimensioning. Not supported by FRED.

404

 

Drawing Entity

IGES entity that defines a collection of annotation entities. Not supported by FRED.

406

 

Property Entity

IGES entity that contains numerical or textual data. Not supported by FRED.

406

1

Definition Levels Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

2

Region Restriction Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

3

Level Function Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

4

(OBSOLETE) – Region Fill Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

5

Line Widening Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

6

Drilled Hole Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

7

Reference Designator Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

8

Pin Number Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

9

Part Number Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

10

Hierarchy Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

11

Tabular Data Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

12

External Reference File List Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

13

Nominal Size Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

14

Flow Line Specification Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

15

Name Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

16

Drawing Size Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

17

Drawing Units Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

18

Intercharacter Spacing Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

19

Line Font Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

20

Highlight Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

21

Pick Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

22

Uniform Rectangular Grid Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

23

Associativity Group Type Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

24

Level to LEP Layer Map Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

25

LEP Artwork Stackup Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

26

LEP Drilled Hole Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

27

Generic Data Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

28

Dimension Units Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

29

Dimension Tolerance Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

30

Dimension Display Data Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

31

Basic Dimension Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

32

Drawing Sheet Approval Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

33

Drawing Sheet ID Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

34

Underscore Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

35

Overscore Property

 Not supported by FRED.

406

36

Closure Property

 Not supported by FRED.

408

 

Singular Subfigure Instance Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

410

1

Perspective View Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

412

 

Rectangular Array Subfigure Instance Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

414

 

Circular Array Subfigure Instance Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

416

 

External Reference Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

418

 

Nodal Load / Constraint Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

420

 

Network Subfigure Instance Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

422

 

Attribute Table Instance Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

422

0

Attribute Table Instance

 Not supported by FRED.

422

1

Attribute Table Instance

 Not supported by FRED.

430

 

Solid Instance Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

502

1

Vertex List Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

504

 

Edge List Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

508

 

Loop Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

510

 

Face Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

514

 

Shell Entity

 Not supported by FRED.

 

 

 

 

 

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