EDIF (Electronic Design Interchange Format) is used to exchange design information between different CAD systems. Although EDIF is currently at version "4 0 0", Electric reads and writes version "2 0 0".

For more information on reading and writing EDIF, see Section 3-9-2 and Section 3-9-3, respectively. EDIF options are controlled with the EDIF Preferences (in menu File / Preferences..., "I/O" section, "EDIF" tab).

This dialog controls whether EDIF output writes schematic or netlist views (the default is netlist). It also lets you set a scale factor for EDIF input. The "Cadence compatibility" check affects both EDIF input and output. When checked, output of multidimensional and symbolic busses is converted to simpler, all-numeric busses, and input of properties starting with "def" are added to cells as parameters. Finally, the "Accepted Parameters" area lets you list those EDIF parameters that will be read (all others are ignored).
Figure 7.4

The bottom section of the panel lets you specify a configuration file that will control EDIF I/O. This file has conversions between coordinates and names inside of Electric and the EDIF file. The file has these lines of text that control different aspects of conversion: