Describe an uploaded DXF drawing

Same as GET /describe, but the DXF file is the request body.

post/describe

Request

  • Base URL: https://aspicio-api.frontsail.app
  • URL: https://aspicio-api.frontsail.app/describe
  • Auth: none required

Query parameters

spacestring

Which space to work on: "Model" (a PDF's page 1, a DXF's model space) or a page/layout name as listed in a describe reply's "spaces". Describe omits it for the whole drawing; render defaults to the first space. A name the drawing does not have is a 400.

Response

Structured summary of the drawing

formatstring required

Which format was read ("dxf", "pdf")

unitsstring required

Drawing unit label ("mm", "in", …) or "" when unitless

spacestring nullable required

Which space this summary is scoped to, or null when it covers the whole drawing (in which case bounds/size describe spaces[0], the space render returns)

entityCountinteger required
segmentCountinteger required
entityTypesobject required

Top-level entities per DXF type

unsupportedobject required

Per-type counts of skipped (unsupported) entities

textsstring[]

Unique TEXT/MTEXT strings, including inside blocks reachable via inserts and dimensions (title blocks, dimension values)

Changes

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