Requirements And Limitations for Reading OASIS

Xic can very likely read any OASIS file that meets the published specification. Exceptions should be reported as bugs!

• Properties are ignored, unless the name matches one of those understood by Xic (see above). The file properties set an internal variable but otherwise do nothing.

• The XNAME, XELEMENT, and XGEOMETRY records are ignored.

• The CIRCLE record will create a polygon object approximating a circle, with the number of sides using the internal variable in Xic.

• The TRAPEZOID and CTRAPEZOID records will create a polygon object.

• The REPETITION records found in PLACEMENT records will define a cell array if possible (i.e., represents a periodic Manhattan configuration), otherwise individual cell instances will be created and replicated. In <geometry> records, any REPETITION is accepted, but the repetition is decomposed and separate objects are created in memory.