DWG/DXF Save-Specific Configuration Variables
MicroStation includes configuration variables to save AutoCAD DWG data. Valid values must be entered exactly as shown in the table. For example, Region Entity must be entered as a whole string.
| Configuration Variable | Use |
|---|---|
| MS_DWG_2D_UNFILLED_3OR4SIDED_SHAPE | Converts 2D unfilled triangles and quadrangles
to polyline, face, polyface mesh, or region entities. Valid values are:
Face Entity Region Entity Polyface Mesh Polyline |
| MS_DWG_2D_UNFILLED_5ORMORESIDED_SHAPE | Converts 2D unfilled polygons to polyline,
polyface mesh, or region entities. Valid values are:
Region Entity Polyface Mesh Polyline |
| MS_DWG_2D_UNFILLED_COMPLEX_SHAPE | Converts 2D unfilled complex shapes to
polyline, polyface mesh, or region entities. Valid values are:
Region Entity Polyface Mesh Polyline |
| MS_DWG_2D_UNFILLED_GROUPHOLE | Converts 2D unfilled group hole elements to
polyface mesh or region entities. Valid values are:
Region Entity Polyface Mesh |
| MS_DWG_3D_UNFILLED_3OR4SIDED_SHAPE | Converts 3D unfilled triangles and quadrangles
to polyline, face, polyface mesh, or region entities. Valid values are:
Face Entity Region Entity Polyface Mesh Polyline |
| MS_DWG_3D_UNFILLED_5ORMORESIDED_SHAPE | Converts 3D unfilled polygons to polyline,
polyface mesh, or region entities. Valid values are:
Region Entity Polyface Mesh Polyline |
| MS_DWG_3D_UNFILLED_COMPLEX_SHAPE | Converts 3D unfilled complex shapes to
polyline, polyface mesh, or region entities. Valid values are:
Region Entity Polyface Mesh Polyline |
| MS_DWG_3D_UNFILLED_GROUPHOLE | Converts 3D unfilled group hole elements to
polyface mesh or region entities. Valid values are:
Region Entity Polyface Mesh |
| MS_DWG_ACS_TO_UCS | Converts ACS to UCS. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_BLOCKDEF_ON_LAYER0 | Saves the block definitions on layer 0. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_BLOCKNAMES_FROM_TRIFORMA_PARTS | Sets the block names from Building parts. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_BLOCKUNITS_FROMFILE | If on, new blocks created from MicroStation will have their INSUNITS set based source file or model units, which may be controlled by the Units drop-down list in Save As DWG/DXF Options dialog, Basic section. Valid values are ON and OFF. |
| MS_DWG_BYBLOCK_COLOR | Sets the block definitions to use the color BYBLOCK. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_BYBLOCK_LINETYPE | Sets the block definitions to use line type BYBLOCK. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_BYBLOCK_WEIGHT | Sets the block definitions to use line weight BYBLOCK. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_CONSTRUCTION_CLASS | Sets the elements of the construction class to
Construction layer, Defpoints layer, element’s own layer, invisible, or
omits them. Valid values are:
Save To Construction Layer Save To Defpoints Layer Save Save As Invisible Omit |
| MS_DWG_CONVERT_RSC_FONTS | Converts and creates SHX files from RSC fonts. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_CREATE_SEPARATE_SHEETS | When a DGN file containing sheet models is saved to DWG, the sheets are usually saved to separate layouts within the DWG file. If this variable is set, the sheets are saved to separate DWG files with the file name created by appending the model name to the original file name. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_CURVED_SOLIDSURFACE | Converts curved solids and surfaces to
wireframe, polyface mesh or ACIS entities. Valid values are:
Wireframe Polyface Mesh ACIS Entity |
| MS_DWG_CURVES | Converts curves to spline curves or polyline
curves. Valid values are:
Spline Entity Polyline |
| MS_DWG_DROP_LABELLINES | When present, a label line dimension will be dropped to single line text when saved to DWG. By default, a label line will become an mtext. If a label line's text positions are important, dropping them to a single line may be desired. Set this variable to any value to turn it on. It is off by default. |
| MS_DWG_DROP_UNSUPPORTED_DIMENSIONS | Drops dimensions that are not supported by DWG file format. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_DROP_UNSUPPORTED_LS | Drops line styles that are not supported by DWG file format. The most possible custom line styles DWG format allows are those with characters in them. Any other types are incompatible. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_EMPTY_EDF_TO_SPACE | Converts blank enter data fields to spaces. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_FARREFDEPENDENCY | If set to 0 (the default), DWG named groups work as they do in DWG, that is, elements from a reference file are not supported by group. This is a DWG limitation. If set to 1, you can work around that limitation, that is, elements in reference files can be selected and saved in named groups. However, these groups still will not work in AutoCAD. If these groups and elements are edited in AutoCAD, they may not function anymore when the DWG file is reopened in the product. |
| MS_DWG_FILE_CODEPAGE | Sets the DWG file codepage. Valid values are 1252 (English) , 1251 (Cyrillic), 1253 (Greek), 1254 (Turkish), 1255 (Hebrew), 1256 (Arabic), 1257 (Baltic), 1258 (Vietnam), 874 (Thai), 932 (Japanese), 936 (Simplified Chinese), 949 (Korean), or 950 (Traditional Chinese). |
| MS_DWG_FILLED_3OR4SIDED_SHAPE | Converts filled triangles and quadrangles to
solid, polyface mesh, region or hatch entities. Valid values are:
Solid Entity Region Entity Hatch Entity Polyface Mesh |
| MS_DWG_FILLED_5ORMORESIDED_SHAPE | Converts filled polygons to polyface mesh,
region or hatch entities. Valid values are:
Region Entity Hatch Entity Polyface Mesh |
| MS_DWG_FILLED_COMPLEX_SHAPE | Converts filled complex shapes to polyline,
region or hatch entities. Valid values are:
Region Entity Hatch Entity Polyline |
| MS_DWG_FLAT_SOLIDSURFACE | Converts flat solids and surfaces to wireframe,
polyface mesh or ACIS entities. Valid values are:
Wireframe Polyface Mesh ACIS Entity |
| MS_DWG_FORCE_POSITIVE_ARCS | For arcs, changes clockwise orientation to counter clockwise. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_FORCE_ZERO_ZCOORDINATE | Sets the z-coordinate of an element to have a zero value. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_INDEXCOLOR_TO_TRUECOLOR | Converts index color to true color. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_LEADER_HOOKLINE | If set, an inline elbow displays on notes that
did not have an elbow when first created.
The product allows a note to be placed without an inline elbow (a hook line in AutoCAD) when the inline toggle is unchecked, but AutoCAD does not. This type of note (for instance, a leader without a hook line) saved to DWG will retain correct graphical presentation, and will operate properly in AutoCAD. However, the audit tool will generate an error (annotation ID not null). The audit error can be resolved by setting this configuration variable to 1. However, the original graphical presentation will be lost (the hook line will appear). |
| MS_DWG_LEVEL_DISPLAY | Sets the view number from which the level display will be used for the layer’s on/off status. Valid values is a number from 0 through 8. |
| MS_DWG_LEVELSYMBOLOGY_OVERRIDE | Overrides the element symbology from the level symbology. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_LINEARPATTERN_CLASS | Sets the elements of the linear pattern class
to Linear Patterned layer, Defpoints layer, element's own layer, invisible,
or omits them. Valid values are:
Save To Linear Patterned Layer Save To Defpoints Layer Save Save As Invisible Omit |
| MS_DWG_LINECODE_SCALE | Scales the line code. Valid value is a positive real number. |
| MS_DWG_LOGICALNAME_TO_XREFNAME | Saves the reference attachment logical name as the block name of an Xref file. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_NONDEF_DESIGNMODEL_ATTACHMENTS | Merges the attachments of a non-default design
model or merges them as block references. Valid values are:
Merge Merge To Cell Omit |
| MS_DWG_NONDEFAULT_DESIGNMODEL | Saves non-default design models to separate
files, layout models (paper space), or ignore them if their attachments are not
merged. Valid values are:
Create Separate Files Create Paper Space Ignore If Not Merged |
| MS_DWG_NONPLANAR_POLYLINES | Converts a nearly planar line string to a 2D
or 3D polyline. A nearly planar linestring is a linestring whose vertices are
mathematically nonplanar, but their deviation to the nearest plane is small.
Such line strings are represented as light weighted polylines. If there is a
large coordinate deviation, it indicates that the nonplanarity is by design and
hence the mapping is ignored. Valid values are:
3D Polyline Polyline |
| MS_DWG_ONE_BLOCK_FOR_DUP_CELLS | Creates one block definition for all type-2 cells that are found to be the same. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_OVERLAY_FOR_REFERENCES | Creates overlays for reference attachments (no live nesting). Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_PATTERN_CLASS | Sets elements of pattern class to Pattern
layer, Defpoints layer, element's own layer, invisible, or omits them. Valid
values are:
Save To Pattern Layer Save To Defpoints Layer Save Save As Invisible Omit |
| MS_DWG_PFACE_MESH_ANGLE | Sets an angular tolerance for polyface mesh conversion. Valid value is a real value in degrees between 0 and 90. |
| MS_DWG_PLANARPOLYLINES | Converts a planar line string to a 2D or 3D
polyline. A planar line string has all its vertices lined up to form a unique
plane. They do not have to be on an orthogonal plane; they can be on any plane
in space. Valid values are:
3D Polyline Polyline |
| MS_DWG_REFERENCE_CONVERT | Converts reference files to DWG files. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_REFERENCE_COPYLEVEL | Sets the conditions to copy reference levels
during merge: only if they are not in the target file, if they are overridden,
or always copy. Valid values are:
If Not Found If Overrides Exist Always |
| MS_DWG_REFERENCE_COPYNESTED | Copies live nested reference attachments to the target file when merging. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_REFERENCE_EXTERNAL | Saves external reference file attachments to
be an Xref attachment (retained), merged, merged as a block, or omitted. Valid
values are:
Retain Merge Merge To Cell Omit |
| MS_DWG_REFERENCE_MASKED | Saves masked reference file attachments to be
an Xref attachment (retained), merged, merged as a block, or omitted. Valid
values are:
Retain Merge Merge To Cell Omit |
| MS_DWG_REFERENCE_MERGE_DISPLAYEDLEVELSONLY | Merges reference levels only if they are displayed. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_REFERENCE_OPTIMIZEDCLIP | Optimizes reference clipping when merged. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_REFERENCE_SELF | Saves self-referenced file attachments to be an
Xref attachment (retained), merged, merged as a block, or omitted. Valid values
are:
Retain Merge Merge To Cell Omit |
| MS_DWG_RENDER_LIGHTSOURCE_SAVE | Saves rendering light sources. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_RENDER_MATERIAL_SAVE | Saves rendering materials. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_SAVE_DIMENSION_SETTINGS | Saves active dimension settings, such as the one listed as Style-none in dimension style dialog. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_SAVE_FILE_SETTINGS | Saves file settings such that non-DWG settings can round-trip back. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_SAVE_FRONTBACK_CLIPS | Saves front-back clippings. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_SAVE_REFERENCE_PATH | Indicates whether/how to save paths for
reference attachments. Valid values are:
When saving to same directory Relative to Master File Never |
| MS_DWG_SAVE_UNITS | Sets the file units to be saved. Valid values
are:
Master Units Sub Units Arch./Engineering a unit defined in file units.def |
| MS_DWG_SCALE_BLOCKS | Scales the block definitions. Valid values are ON (or no value) or OFF. |
| MS_DWG_SHEETBACKGROUND_COLOR | Sets the background color for sheet models. Valid values are Red, Green, Blue, where each of these color values is an integer between 0 and 255. |
| MS_DWG_SHX_OUTPUT_PATH | Sets the path to place converted SHX files. Valid value is a path or folder name. |
| MS_DWG_SOURCEVIEWGROUP | Used to specify a view group name, rather than
using the active view group, to save the level display on/off status per view
to DWG's global layer display. Because DWG does not support per-view level
display, if multiple view groups (for example, the default design model and
sheet models) use different per-view level display, only one can be saved as
the global layer display for all models.
When this configuration variable is not set, the active view group determines the global layer display status. When it is set with a valid view group name, that view group determines the global layer display status. When it is set with an invalid view group name, the first view group that points to a sheet model in the file determines the global layer display status. This can be useful if you are saving files in a batch, and each file has only one sheet model which is not always the active model. This configuration variable takes effect only if MS_DWG_LEVEL_DISPLAY is set. |
| MS_DWG_TEXTSTYLE_NAME_TEMPLATE | Sets a text string template to convert text style name. Valid value is a text string that may contain a place holder %s for the font name. |
| MS_DWG_VERSION | Sets DWG version to be saved. Valid values are 11, 12,13, 14, 2000, 2000i, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. |
| MS_DWG_VPORT_LAYER_FROM_CLIP | Sets the layer of viewport entity from the
clipping element.
Viewport entities are represented as reference attachments in the product – the viewport level is extracted from the reference attachment. If no level is set for the reference attachment then by default the viewport is assigned to layer 0 . However, if this variable is set and a clip element is present, then the viewport layer is extracted from the clip element. |
| MS_DWG_VPORT_MAP_LOCATE_OFF_TO_LOCKED | If set, the Display locked status of a viewport entity is mapped to the Locate setting of the reference attachments that represent this viewport. In this case, a viewport with Display locked off will have Locate turned off – and changing the Locate status of the reference attachment will change the Display Locked status of the viewport. |
| MS_DWG_VPFREEZE | Sets the Viewport Freeze per View Level Display option. |
| MS_DWGINSERTLAYER | Specifies the layer to which normal (unshared) cells and reference attachments are assigned when saving the open DGN file in DWG format. If this configuration variable is not defined, layer 0 is used. Valid values are ON (or no value) and OFF. |
| MS_DWGSAVEAPPLICATIONDATA | Linkage data and type 66 application elements can be saved from DGN to DWG. If set, the applications are stored as XRECORDS and the linkages as XDATA. Valid values are ON (or no value) and OFF. The default is off. |
| MS_DXF_PRECISION | Sets the number of decimal places for real numbers when saving file to DXF. Valid value is an integer number between 1 and 16. |