MPOLYGON support - test data needed

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Manfred Moitzi

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Apr 23, 2021, 12:46:41 AM4/23/21

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The MPOLYGON seems to be an AutoCAD Map specific entity but very similar to the HATCH entity and is has no explicit documentation in the DXF Reference. I can not create this entity in BricsCAD, but the MPOLYGON could be supported if I get some test data from AutoCAD Map users to see if the entity is really like a HATCH entity. I would need small DXF files containing MPOLYGONS with polyline paths (LWPOLYLINE) and edge paths (ARC, ELLIPSE, SPLINE), with and without nested holes, with and without filling in many DXF versions (R2000, R2007, R2010, R2018).

A new feature will be the conversion from MPOLYGON to HATCH and the HATCH entity will get a method to extract the bounding paths as virtual as DXF primitives:

LWPOLYLINE for a polyline path
list of LINE, ARC, ELLIPSE and SPLINE for an edge path

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