Readme; IGESFFF.EXE

Fish Fish Frog is a non-graphical IGES parser, which consists of a
collection of C++ algorithms for reading, writing, and displaying
entities in an IGES file.  Entities are displayed in a text based
format called an Entity Card which combines the Directory Entry
(DE) section and Parameter Data (PD) section data for each IGES
entity into an "easy" to read format:

+------+------+                            +--------+
| Type | Form |            Text Name       |  Card  |
|      |      |                            | Number |
+------+------+----------------------------+--------+
|                                                   |
|       Directory Entry (DE) Data                   |
|                                                   |
+---------------------------------------------------+
|       Parameter Data (PD) Data                    |
|                                                   |
+---------------------------------------------------+

The current executable IGESFFF is designed to process "IGES
APPLICATION PROTOCOL: 3D PIPING" files. If IGESFFF detects that the
file being parsed is compliant with the AP, the output of Entity
Cards will be followed with an output showing how the entities are
related to the constructions of the AP. For example, a pipe may be
described as:

Pipe of diameter 6.000000
>From (245.631173,0.000000,0.000000)
  To (323.950617,0.000000,0.000000)

102 {  40} ---+--> 132 {  33}
              +--> 110 {  34}
              +--> 132 {  35}
              +--> 422 {  37}---> 322 {  36}
              +--> 422 {  39}---> 322 {  38}

This application has been very helpful to the author in learning
about the IGES language and file structure, and it is hoped that
others will find a benefit from the many hours spent writing this
code.

The command: C:\IGESFFF {filename}, where {filename} is the name of
an IGES file, launches the application and streams output to the
screen.  The command: C:\IGESFFF {filename} > {outfile}, where
{outfile} is the output file, uses DOS redirection to capture
output into a text file.

The Zip archive contains the IGESFFF.EXE executable file for IBM PC
compatible computers.
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Robert Schuler schulerrw@nswccd.navy.mil, 7/98.