Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
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thumb|upright|Logo of the IGES Project from National Institute of Standards and Technology|NIST The Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) is a vendor-neutral file format that allows the digital exchange of information among computer-aided design (CAD) systems. It is an ASCII-based textual format.
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paulbourke.net →IGES stands for Initial Graphics Exchange Specification and was written by a panel for the National Bureau of Standards. The strongest argument for IGES is its high level of support by CAD packages running on the larger computer systems. IGES is both a 2D and 3D format.
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- application/iges
- file extension
- iges
- described at URL
- www.fileformat.info/format/iges/egff.htm
- publication date
- 1980-00-00
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thumb|upright|Logo of the IGES Project from National Institute of Standards and Technology|NIST The Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) is a vendor-neutral file format that allows the digital exchange of information among computer-aided design (CAD) systems. It is an ASCII-based textual format.
The official title of IGES is Digital Representation for Communication of Product Definition Data, first published in March, 1980 by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards as NBSIR 80-1978. Many documents (like early versions of the Defense Standards MIL-PRF-28000 and MIL-STD-1840) referred to it as ASME Y14.26M, the designation of the ANSI committee that approved IGES Version 1.0.