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