TOP2DXF

The command line arguments are:

 *.nez file format(12x,f12.0,f12.0,f12.0,a) 
  
 top2dxf    infile   isw1   ilabel    txtsiz
  
 infile  =*.nez input file name 
 isw1    =switch to control limits 
        0=no limits header 
        1=limits based on min and max values 
 ilabel 0=no printing of point labels  
        1=print labels 
 txtsiz  =size of text in coord. units (float)

For an example, consider file samp0000.nez:

          1    0.000000    0.000000  100.000000 SP001
          2    0.000000    2.000000  101.000000 SP002
          3    0.000000    4.000000  102.000000 SP003
          4    0.000000    6.000000  103.000000 SP004
          5    2.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP001
          6    3.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP002
          7    4.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP003
          8    5.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP004
          9    6.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP005
         10    7.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP006
         11    8.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP007
         12    9.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP008
         13   10.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP009
         14   11.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP010
         15   12.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP011
         16   13.000000    2.000000  100.000000 VP012
         17    2.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP050
         18    3.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP051
         19    4.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP052
         20    5.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP053
         21    6.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP054
         22    7.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP055
         23    8.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP056
         24    9.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP057
         25   10.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP058
         26   11.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP059
         27   12.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP060
         28   13.000000    8.000000  125.000000 VP061

In a terminal, we type the command:
top2dxf samp0000.nez 0 1 .25

Figure 63 illustrates how the output file, samp0000.dxf can be read by a common CAD program (here Qcad). Other programs that can read Digital Exchange Format (DXF) files include Microstation and Autocad. Raw EDM files, like from Topcon FC4 controllers can be converted to the NEZ format using TOP2NEZ 10.1.13.

Figure 63: QCAD: Qcad used to read the file samp0000.dxf and exported to a PDF file. The point SP001 is at the origin, (0,0,0).