Cyberspace Description Format
File type: 3d graphics, CAD-CAM-CAE file
A cdf file extension is related to the Cyberspace Description Format that is used to describing VRML worlds in ASCII format.
Found 13 different file type records with the same cdf filename suffix.
File type category:
3d graphics, CAD-CAM-CAE file
Date updated: August 17, 2017
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The cdf file extension is used for an ASCII format describing VRML worlds.
The Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) is the standard file format for describing 3D objects and interactive scenes that can viewed and explored on the World-Wide Web.
VRML file names are given the extension, .wrl, short for world.
File type category:
Settings, options, themes or skins file
Date updated: October 25, 2018
The cdf file extension is associated with Tiling Analysis Software and other DNA analysis software for Microsoft Windows operating system developed by Affymetrix Inc.
The cdf file stores chip definition used by Affymetrix software.
Use compatible tools to work with *.cdf files.
Probably can be converted to other formats.
Software apps that manage or store settings in cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: June 11, 2018
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The cdf file extension is related to the Comma Delimited Data Format.
Popular format for transferring data from one application to another, because most database systems are able to import and export comma-delimited data.
Seems to be obsolete.
File type category:
Document file
Date updated: January 24, 2024
File extension cdf is also used for the Computable Document Format, an electronic document format created to offer users easy authoring of dynamically generated interactive content.
This includes things like calculations, graphs, and other interactive elements. CDF files are used in a variety of fields, including education, research, and engineering, to create interactive textbooks, reports, and presentations.
The format was developed by Wolfram Research and is mainly used in their software products.
Wolfram CDF player is able to open and work with the .cdf files.
Static view of these interactive documents can be export to PDF.
Software applications that can open cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that can edit cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software capable of saving cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: November 14, 2018
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The cdf file extension is associated with applications, that are developed by the ECMG, LLC.
The cdf file contains data in XML format. It used to exchange data between repositories or organizations.
Software applications that can open cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
ECMG Reader
Software apps that create cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
ECMG Reader
File type category:
Settings, options, themes or skins file
Date updated: November 9, 2018
The cdf file extension is associated with the CryENGINE, a video gaming engine and video games development environment for Microsoft Windows operating system.
The cdf file stores character definition data used by CryENGINE.
Use compatible tools to work with *.cdf files.
Probably cannot be converted to other formats.
Software applications that can open cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that manage or store settings in cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: June 24, 2019
The cdf file extension is associated with the Common Data Format developed by GSFC (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center).
The Common Data Format is used to self-describing data format for the storage of scalar and multidimensional data in a platform- and discipline-independent way.
Use compatible tools to work with *.cdf files.
Probably can be exported to other formats.
Programs for viewing cdf files:
Multiplatform
File type category:
Settings, options, themes or skins file
Date updated: May 22, 2019
The cdf file extension is associated with the InstallShield, a tool for Microsoft Windows operating system that allows users to create Windows programs installation packages developed by Flexera Sfotware.
The cdf file stores components definition for InstallShield.
Use compatible tools to work with *.cdf files.
Probably cannot be converted to other formats.
Software applications that can open cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
3d graphics, CAD-CAM-CAE file
Date updated: April 17, 2019
The cdf file extension is also related to MicroSim PCBoard program and used for files that contain saved component description file for bill of materials.
The program is now known as OrCAD PCB Designer after Cadence acquired MicroSim.
You can work with these files in PCBoard and perhaps even the new OrCAD PCB Designer.
Probably cannot be converted to other formats.
Software applications that can open cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Internet related file
Date updated: June 27, 2025
The cdf file extension is also related to the Channel Definition Format, an open specification that permits a web publisher to offer frequently updated collections of information, or channels, from any web server for automatic delivery to compatible receiver programs on PCs or other information appliances.
Use compatible tools to work with *.cdf files.
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Accounting, financial and tax file
Date updated: October 31, 2018
The cdf file extension is associated with the Nominal Small Business Accounting Software for Microsoft Windows operating system developed by bsmArt Consulting.
The cdf files contain financial data saved by the application.
Use Nominal Small Business Accounting Software to open cdf files.
Probably can be exported to other formats.
Software applications that can open cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that import cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that export cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Graphics file
Date updated: March 25, 2019
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The cdf file extension was also in the past used for Network Common Data Form (NtCDF) format until it was replaced by nc extension.
NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
The cdf files are spectral data files stored in the AIA/ANDI FT-IR data format that can be submitted for searching provided they conform to the V1.1.3 of the AIA/ANDI FT-IR Data Interchange specification.
The recommended extension for netCDF files was changed from CDF to nc in 1994 in order to avoid a clash with the NASA cdf, and now it also avoids confusion with "Channel Definition Format" files.
MIME types:
application/x-netcdf
Use compatible tools to work with *.cdf files.
Probably can be exported to other formats.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: October 2, 2026
The .cdf file extension is associated with ISE Classics, the development software from Xilinx, Inc. for Microsoft Windows. The file is used by the ISE tool chain, including its device-programming tools.
A .cdf file describes the devices and related programming information in a configured hardware chain. It is used to configure and program devices through the relevant ISE tools.
ISE and this file format are legacy technologies. Existing Windows projects may still require ISE Classics and its associated tools to use these files.
Open the file with Xilinx ISE Classics on Microsoft Windows, using the ISE device-programming tools that created or use the chain description. The file is normally managed as part of an ISE project or programming workflow rather than opened as a standalone document.
A general text editor may display the file's contents, but it will not interpret the chain configuration or provide the programming functions supplied by ISE.
A .cdf file is used as a chain description by the ISE programming tools rather than as a general-purpose interchange file. Use the relevant ISE programming tool to create or save the required chain configuration.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving cdf files:
Microsoft Windows
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