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
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.
Tiling Analysis Software (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: June 11, 2018
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.
Mathematica (Microsoft Windows)
Wolfram CDF Player (Microsoft Windows)
Mathematica (Microsoft Windows)
Mathematica (Microsoft Windows)
Mathematica (Microsoft Windows)
Wolfram CDF Player (Microsoft Windows)
Wolfram CDF Player (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: November 14, 2018
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.
ECMG Reader (Microsoft Windows)
ECMG Reader (Microsoft Windows)
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.
CryENGINE Free SDK (Microsoft Windows)
CryENGINE Free SDK (Microsoft Windows)
CryENGINE Free SDK (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.
CDF Software (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.
InstallShield (Microsoft Windows)
InstallShield (Microsoft Windows)
InstallShield (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.
OrCAD PCB Designer (Microsoft Windows)
OrCAD PCB Designer (Microsoft Windows)
OrCAD PCB Designer (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.
Microsoft Edge (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Internet Explorer (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.
Nominal Small Business Accounting Software (Microsoft Windows)
Nominal Small Business Accounting Software (Microsoft Windows)
Nominal Small Business Accounting Software (Microsoft Windows)
Nominal Small Business Accounting Software (Microsoft Windows)
Nominal Small Business Accounting Software (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Graphics file
Date updated: March 25, 2019
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 file extension in 1994 in order to avoid a clash with the NASA cdf file extension, 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.
netCDF (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: March 25, 2015
The cdf file extension is associated with development applications, like ISE Classics applications developed by Xilinx Inc. for Microsoft Windows operating system.
The cdf file stores environment chain description data.
ISE Classics (Microsoft Windows)
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