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CGM Export Settings Dialog

Used to set general CGM export settings.

You can access this dialog from the following:
  • Export CGM File dialog: Settings > General...


SettingDescription
Settings File Shows the active CGM export settings file.
View In 3D, sets the view that determines the DGN file orientation that is used in the CGM picture.
Color Mode Can be Index or Direct.
Translation Units You can select whether units in the CGM file are based on either:
  • Master — Equates CGM units to the master units of the active DGN file.
  • Sub — Equates CGM units to sub-units of the active DGN file.
Number of Colors Sets the maximum number of colors in the CGM file.
VDC Type The 2D Cartesian virtual device coordinates in the CGM file can be Integer or Real.
Metric Scale Set the number of millimeters in a VDC unit.
VDC Integer Precision If VDC Type is set to Integer, sets the size of integers in the virtual device coordinates.
Integer Precision Sets the size of integers in the CGM file.
VDC Real Format Sets the type of the VDC real numbers — Float-(1,8,23) (Floating point) or Fixed-(16,16).
Real Format Sets the type of real coordinates — Float-(1,8,23) (Floating point) or Fixed-(16,16).
Spline Segments These settings control how B-splines are converted.
  • SurfU (SURFU) - Controls the number of faces used to approximate a surface (U-direction).
  • SurfV (SURFV) - Controls the number of faces used to approximate a surface (V-direction).
Stroke Text If on and text cannot be interpreted correctly, the text is drawn as a line string.
User Scale Define the scale factor for Scaled Line, Edge width.
Scaled Line, Edge width If on, the line and edge width can be specified as a measure in VDC units, a scale factor to be applied to a device-dependent nominal line width at interpretation time, a fraction of the device view surface or a measure in millimeters.
Make Lower Left Origin Set the lower left corner as the origin; the default is the upper right corner.
Override Background Color When exporting, set your own background color to override what you have in the DGN.
RGB Background Combined quantities of red, green and blue to produce colors for the background.
RGB Foreground Combined quantities of red, green and blue to produce colors for the foreground.