SDF Writer US-ASCII charset limit

I have just tested a new ‘Load SD-Files (SDF)’ node in the family of ‘Load… files’ from Vernalis. It looks to work OK in initial testing but needs some further testing before being released into the wild! This follows the same file encoding pattern as shown in our previous comment above. The node doesnt have the ability to extract properties from the SDF blocks (you can use the ‘SDF Extractor’ node to do that anyway), but does attempt to parse the header block and counts lines. Not all SDF writers follow the original format guide very strictly, however, so the output is sometimes nonsense (although the node never actually fails to read the sdf… yet!)

Steve