This format will soon be considered obsolete. Conversion programs will be made available to convert FIG files to the new format. The syntax of a figure file is simple, and very C-like. It consists of a series of segments, each of which can possess a set of attributes, as well as child segments. Each segment is bounded by braces.
Attributes are arbitrary text strings ending in a semicolon.
An example will make all this clearer. The attributes used above are name and comment. Note that no program ever has to recognize a comment attribute, since by defintion comments should be ignored. The pos is the x,y,z displacement of the origin of this segment relative to the parent's coordinate system. The rot is the rotation of this segment relative to the parent.