What are CGM files?

The petroleum industry commonly used CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) computer graphics Meta file format to save some of the drawings, and small series in the work also more or less contact with a number of CGM file knowledge, here for you to explain.

　　What is CGM file

CGM files are typically used to describe, store, and transmit device-independent vectors, vectors, and images that are mixed together. CGM is the specification of image and picture description information storage and conversion mechanism, which is one of the international standards of ISO. Because the CGM format was designed earlier, although many ideas are very good, the design of graphic elements complex, but there are some congenitally deficient, the biggest problem is the support of Chinese, and then support a variety of versions (V1 to V4), and can also be customized, known as profile, and some companies for the cost of consideration, Usually only support V1 or V2, some complex elements are no longer considered.

　　How does a CGM file open?

So how does CGM file open? You can use UG (Unigraphics NX), CorelDRAW and other software to open. You can also use the Picture Format conversion tool to convert to other picture formats.

Perhaps in everyone's opinion that such a strange format is far away from our life, in fact in life we see a lot of vector map is CGM files. After reading this article, do you know more about CGM files?