[DATABASE]

This section is REQUIRED and must be the first section to appear in the AIF file. It is used to identify the file as AIF and to identify the version of the file. This section also contains the units of all geometric data that follows.

[DATBASE]
TYPE=AIF
VERSION=2.0
UNITS=UM

This section identifies the file as an AIF file so that a parser can quickly know the file type and version. The units are specified here - um | mm | cm | inch | mil All coordinates and geometry that follows are in these units.