Question: What is an CDF File?
Question: What is an CDF File? Have you found, downloaded or received an CDF file, but don't know which software program is required to open it? Before attempting to open an CDF file, you'll need to determine what kind of file you are dealing with and whether it is even possible to open or view the file format. Execute.CDF file by double-clicking on it. If you have already installed the software to open it and the files associations are set up correctly,.CDF file will be opened. If Windows keeps asking you what program should be used to open the file, the problem is most possibly caused by broken files associations.
Have you found, downloaded or received an CDF file, but don't know which software program is required to open it?
Before attempting to open an CDF file, you'll need to determine what kind of file you are dealing with and whether it is even possible to open or view the file format.
Answer: Files which are given the .CDF extension are known as ASCII Format Describing VRML Worlds files, however other file types may also use this extension. If you are aware of any additional file formats that use the CDF extension, please let us know.
How to open a CDF file:The best way to open an CDF file is to simply double-click it and let the default assoisated application open the file. If you are unable to open the file this way, it may be because you do not have the correct application associated with the extension to view or edit the CDF file.
This file format was added to our database by a visitor to this site, but no additional information was provided. We have yet to investigate this file type further, or there was not enough information available at the time to report accurately on the format.
Please check back soon for more information as we are constantly updating our file descriptions based on search frequency.
Tip: Try to open the CDF file using a text-editor such as Notepad, as many file types contain simply contain unformatted plain-text and can viewed correctly using this method.
- Self-describing data format for the storage of scalar and multidimensional data in a platform- and discipline-independent way
- Scientific data management package (CDF Library) allows application developers to manage these data arrays
- Transparent access to data and meta-data through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- Built-in support for data compression (gZip, RLE, Huffman) and automatic data uncompression, and checksum
- Large file support (> 2G-bytes)
- CDF library includes a suite of tools that allow users to manipulate CDF files
- Provide read/write interfaces for C, FORTRAN, Java, Perl, C#/Visual Basic, IDL, MATLAB (and user-supplied software, e.g., Python, Sybase, mySQL)
- More in Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ)
How To Open A Cdf File On A Mac
[Download the latest released version (V3.8.0)]
Please email cdfsupportwith any CDF-related questions (both technical and policy-related).
An external CDF visualization tool: Autoplot interactive browser
How To Open A Cdf File
Please check back soon for more information as we are constantly updating our file descriptions based on search frequency.
Tip: Try to open the CDF file using a text-editor such as Notepad, as many file types contain simply contain unformatted plain-text and can viewed correctly using this method.
- Self-describing data format for the storage of scalar and multidimensional data in a platform- and discipline-independent way
- Scientific data management package (CDF Library) allows application developers to manage these data arrays
- Transparent access to data and meta-data through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- Built-in support for data compression (gZip, RLE, Huffman) and automatic data uncompression, and checksum
- Large file support (> 2G-bytes)
- CDF library includes a suite of tools that allow users to manipulate CDF files
- Provide read/write interfaces for C, FORTRAN, Java, Perl, C#/Visual Basic, IDL, MATLAB (and user-supplied software, e.g., Python, Sybase, mySQL)
- More in Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ)
How To Open A Cdf File On A Mac
[Download the latest released version (V3.8.0)]
Please email cdfsupportwith any CDF-related questions (both technical and policy-related).
An external CDF visualization tool: Autoplot interactive browser
How To Open A Cdf File
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How To Open A Cdf File On A Mac
- NOTE:
- We are considering turning off our Solaris SPARC server and our Open VMS server is currently offline, both used for CDF development. Who is still depending on our continued support for these platforms? Please let us know. Thanks.
- As Mac has stopped supporting 32-bit applications, we are also considering to stop building 32-bit in our future releases. Please let us know if this would cause a problem.
- June 1, 2020: CDF version V3.8.0 is released. Read Changes made in this and previous releases. A note for Windows users: there are eight packaged versions of binary builds, for Windows 32 bit and 64 bit as appropriate, each compiled with MS Visual Studio 2015 (preferred) and the older MS Visual Studio 2008, and each packaged with the simple WinZip and the older InstallMate installer (which sometimes is reported of malware by certain antivirus scanning software). We recommend the versions made with the MS Visual Studio 2015 compiler, as the use of the older compiler will be dropped in future releases. Please read AAREADME for information.
- For the TT2000 data type for time, read our requirements analysis and development approach for more details.
- The latest leap second table can be found here.
- IDL: Patch based on the latest CDF V3.8.0version IDL Patch.
- MATLAB: CDF distributed modules based on the latest CDF V3.8.0 version MATLAB Patch
- C#/Visual Basic C#/VB-CDF for Windows based on the latest CDF V3.8.0.
- A suite of user-provided software can interact with CDF. Please check them out here.
- Send CDFsupport email: cdfsupport
