DICTIONARYVAR (DXF)

The following group codes are used by DICTIONARYVAR objects.

DICTIONARYVAR group codes

Group code

Description

0

Object name (DICTIONARYVAR)

5

Handle

102

Start of persistent reactors group; always “{ACAD_REACTORS”

330

Soft-pointer ID/handle to owner dictionary (ACDBVARIABLEDICTIONARY)

102

End of persistent reactors group, always “}”

100

Subclass marker (DictionaryVariables)

280

Object schema number (currently set to 0)

1

Value of variable

DICTIONARYVAR objects are used by AutoCAD as a means to store named values in the database for setvar / getvar purposes without the need to add entries to the DXF™ HEADER section. System variables that are stored as DICTIONARYVAR objects are the following: DEFAULTVIEWCATEGORY, DIMADEC, DIMASSOC, DIMDSEP, DRAWORDERCTL, FIELDEVAL, HALOGAP, HIDETEXT, INDEXCTL, INDEXCTL, INTERSECTIONCOLOR, INTERSECTIONDISPLAY, MSOLESCALE, OBSCOLOR, OBSLTYPE, OLEFRAME, PROJECTNAME, SORTENTS, UPDATETHUMBNAIL, XCLIPFRAME, and XCLIPFRAME.