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Contents Revisions to the DXF Reference . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Objects Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chapter 1 DXF Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Organization of This Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Formatting Conventions in This Reference. . . . . . . . . 6 Object and Entity Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Group Code Value Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Group Codes in Numerical Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 2 HEADER Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 HEADER Section Group Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Revised VPORT Header Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Special Handling of Date/Time Variables . . . . . . . . 28 Chapter 3 CLASSES Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 CLASSES Section Group Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Default Class Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Chapter 4 TABLES Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Symbol Table Group Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Common Symbol Table Group Codes . . . . . . . . . . . 36 iii
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Group codes that apply to all graph
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Hatch boundary path data group code
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Spline edge data group codes (conti
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Image group codes (continued) Group
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Leader group codes (continued) Grou
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Lwpolyline group codes Group codes
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Mtext group codes (continued) Group
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POLYLINE The following group codes
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Drawing Interchange File Formats A
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Symbol Table Group Codes in DXF Fil
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Advanced DXF Issues B This appendix
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NOTE If you use 1005 xdata group co
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