Ellipses
autocad_entity:autocad_ellipse
Ellipse features are point features used to represent both AutoCAD circle and AutoCAD ellipse entities.The point serves as the centre of the ellipse.Ellipse entities with anautocad_primary_axisequal to theautocad_secondary_axisare stored within the drawing file as a circle entity.Additional attributes specify the rotation,major axis,and minor axis of the ellipse.
Tip:TheArcStroker transformercan be used to convert an ellipse to a polygon.This is useful for representing ellipses in systems that do not support them directly.
Attribute Name |
Content |
autocad_primary_axis |
The length of the semi-major axis in ground units. Range: 64-bit floating point number > 0 Default: No default Reprojectable: Yes |
autocad_secondary_axis |
The length of the semi-minor axis in ground units. Range: 64-bit floating point number > 0 Default: No default Reprojectable: Yes |
autocad_rotation |
The rotation of the major axis.The rotation is measured in degrees counterclockwise up from horizontal. Range: -360.0..360.0 Default: 0 Reprojectable: Yes |