Data Extraction from DXF File and Visual Display

Abstract

DXF File is a graph exchanging file for CAD data exchange between other softwares provided by Autodesk Company. The house drawing of Shandong University is designed by AutoCAD software, and the graph information of house is recorded by the DXF file. Based on the DXF file, this paper will conduct an analysis on DXF file and extract the information from it. Then this paper will relate those extracted information with the information of house saved in the database by the automatic information retrieval algorithm and manual information retrieval algorithm. Finally, the information from database can be reclassified into four layers: base graph layer, room name layer, room area layer and room user layer.And those reclassified information will be displayed at the end of CS. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.