GTXImage CAD Series and GTXRaster CAD Series, All Versions:
GTXRAST.CFG - Editable Configuration File
A user editable configuration file exists within the main program folder for each installation of every version
of GTXImage CAD and GTXRaster CAD. This text file, named gtxrast.cfg, may be edited in Notepad, Wordpad,
Microsoft Word, or other text file editor. It consists of 67 program variables which control such program
aspects as display color, default image file types, program license version, and much more. Many of the variable values which are written into this file will set GTX program command option choices which are changeable
within the running GTX program. Some of the values in the configuration file may not be altered except by
exiting the running GTX program and text editing the configuration file.
Configuration Entry Descriptions - The configuration file entries are explained below and valid
entries are given. Any items not included in the file or not given a value will use the default values.
Basic Configuration Parameters
| DrawingUnits | This entry has two functions. It
defines whether configuration values should be inches or millimeters and also
how the World Coordinate Units should be applied to the raster image. The
raster image can be either “1inch” or “1mm”; the other linear measurements in
the configuration file will be in the same unit (i.e., if you specify “mm” the
RasterWidth parameter will express millimeters and the value should be adjusted
accordingly). The DrawingUnits value defines what inch or 1 mm on the raster
image maps to in AutoCAD units. The value entered must be a real number. This
defaults to AutoCAD’s initial units value.
| | RasterPath | Defines the default path for saving
raster files. You can override the directory entered here by entering the full
path when prompted for a file name. The default is to save the file in the
current directory.
| | RasterFormat | Defines the default storage format of
new raster files. This is used by gCREATE and when using gACTIVE on color images.
| | RasterLoadExt | Defines the available raster formats
that will be loaded with AutoCAD open when a raster file with the same name is
in the same directory.
| | RefRotate | Defines the angle to rotate images with accompanying .REF
files when attached with gATTACH
(whether explitly invoked or incidentally invoked using AutoCAD OPEN command). Valid entries are Rotate, Turn or Off.
| | Rotate | Performs an AutoCAD ROTATE on the image entity, then moves the image so the new lower
left corner is located where the old one was. Use this option if you want to
migrate hybrid raster data back to older versions of GTX software. The
disadvantage is that raster files with .REF files are attached at an angle. No raster data is changed - the image is
rotated and moved!
| | Turn | Performs a gTURN on the image entity, which actually rotates the raster data
and swaps the X and Y raster limits,
resizing the image. Use this option if backward migration to earlier GTX
software is not important. The advantage of this option is that images are
attached at a 0° orientation.
| | RefAngle | Defines the angle used by RefRotate parameter. Valid entries are
0, 90, 180, 270 degrees. The default is 90.
| | MaxNumPixels | Sets the maximum number of
pixels allowed in a new raster image. Default setting is 552,960,000, which at
300 dpi is equivalent to 78.38 x 78.38 inches or 1990 x 1990 millimeters.
| | HighlightColor | Defines the default color used to
highlight selected raster data. Choose a color that can be seen against the
raster image and against the background color. Valid entries are the same for
RasterColor. The color can be changed with the gCOLOR or gLAYER
commands. The default is GREEN.
| | RasterWidth | Sets the default raster line width
to be used when vector entities are converted to raster. The entry should be an
appropriate real number, or T if you
want to specify the Line Width Table values. The default is .01. This value will be in inches or mm
according to the DrawingUnits entry.
All the values can be reset when you use the gRASTER command.
| | BackupRas | YES causes raster save to create a backup raster file. NO deactivates the backup option.
| | BackupRasExt | Sets the file extension for backup
raster files.
| | Resolution | Defines the default resolution for new raster images.
| | MaxUndo | Sets the number of raster undos that
are stored.
| | Tiffformat | Sets the subformat to be used when saving TIFF files:
| Format | Value |
| TIFF G3 | 1 |
| GIFF G4 | 2 |
| TIFF UNCOMPRESSED | 3 |
| TIFF TILED V6 | 4 |
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| Disable | Disables
a specified command. Enter a single command name (i.e., gMOVE) after the word “Disable”. The software will not allow the user to invoke the specified command. To disable multiple commands, add more Disable [Command Name] lines to the configuration file. |
Text Configuration Parameters
| CharFile | Sets a
recognition file for GTXRaster CAD PLUS to automatically load when it is
run. If you want the program to load multiple recognition files, add more CharFile [Recognition File] lines to the
configuration file. |
| AmbigChar | Sets a
character to be listed in the ambiguous characters list box in the gTCONFIG
dialog upon starting GTXRaster CAD PLUS. |
| CharOrient | Sets the
initial values for the Orientation
list in the gTCONFIG dialog,
determining the allowed orientations for building AutoCAD text entities. The
default setting is 0. Valid entries
are any angle between -360 and 360 degrees. |
| CharThreshold | Sets the
initial value of the AutoConvert
Threshold setting in the gTCONFIG
dialog. This is the character confidence
level above which the character verification dialog appears. The default
value is 100, which makes the
character verification dialog appear every time. Valid entries are integers
from 0 to 100. |
| CharMinSize | Sets the
initial value for the Min Char Size
setting in the gTCONFIG dialog,
determining the minimum value for raster text characters when using Text IOP or
gTCONVRT. The default value is .04. |
| CharMaxSize | Sets the
initial value for the Max Char Size
setting in the gTCONFIG dialog,
determining the maximum value for the raster characters when using Text IOP or gTCONVRT. The default value is .4. |
| CharSpaceSize | Sets the
initial value for the Space Size
setting in the gTCONFIG dialog,
defining the distance between raster characters in terms of a typical
character’s width necessary for gTCONVRT
to insert a space character. The default value is 1.0. Valid entries are any positive real number. |
| CharAlign | Sets the
initial value for the Alignment Offset setting
in the gTCONFIG dialog, determining
the minimum vertical distance, relative to the text strings’ orientations,
between separate lines of text in terms of a percentage of a typical
character’s height. The default setting is 0.
Valid entries are any real number. |
| TextHeight | Sets the
initial value for the TextHeight value in the text configuration dialog. |
| MaxSpaceSize | Sets the
initial value for the Max # Spaces
setting in the gTCONFIG dialog,
determining the maximum number of spaces that can be inserted into a text
string by gTCONVRT before it breaks
the text string into two separate AutoCAD text entities. The default setting is
1. Valid entries are integers 1
through 100. |
| MaxSpaceSize | Sets the
initial value for the Max Space Size
dialog. |
| WordVerifyLevel | Sets
the initial value for the word-mode verification level. |
| WordForceLevel | Sets
the initial value for the word-mode force-fit level. |
| TouchingCR | Controls
whether ICR splits touching characters.
0 means OFF, 1 means ON |
| CRMode | Controls
whether ICR is performing Character
recognition or Word recognition. 0 means word mode CR, 1 means character mode
CR |
| SimFile | Establishes
the character similarity file to use for word recognition. Gtxtext.sim
is hardcoded into GTX, but if another file is loaded it will override the
default similarity settings. |
| WordFile | Establishes
the dictionary file(s) to load on startup. |
Raster-to-Vector Conversion Parameters
| GAP_SIZE_TO_JUMP | Sets the default GAP JUMP size. |
| HATCH_LAYER_NAME | Sets the layer name to be created during hatch recognition. |
| LINESTYLE_LAYER_NAME | Sets the layer name to be created during linestyle recognition |
| PColor | Establishes a value in the line width configuration table.
Pcolor [Color Value]=0.050 [Line Width] |
| PClrUnit | Determines behavior of linewidth color table when rasterizing or vectorizing with a scaled image. Set PclrUnit=0 if you want to multiply your pcolor setting by the AutoCAD scale of the
Image. Set PclrUnit=1 if you do NOT want to multiply your pcolor setting by the AutoCAD scale of the image. |
Other Parameters
| ProductLevel | sets the product level for the GTXRaster CAD series to run. Settings include RCAD, RCADPLUS, RTOOLS, R2V, ICAD, ICADPLUS |
| DemoMode | Determines whether GTXRaster CAD
operates in demonstration mode.
Although GTXRaster CAD will revert to demo mode if a HASP key is not
present, this process can take up to a few minutes. If you install GTXRaster CAD specifically for demonstration
purposes, DemoMode=YES causes it to
automatically enter demonstration mode without this delay. DemoMode=NO
(default setting) causes GTXRaster CAD to look for the HASP key when it first
runs. |
| Zero_Pline | Determines how polylines of zero
width are rasterized. 0 causes
zero-width plines to rasterized like other entities. 1 causes them to rasterize at 1 pixel wide. |
| HaspTimeOut | Determines the number of minutes
idle time the GTXRaster CAD Series license server will allow before
de-activating an active license and making it available again. Must be at least 120. |
| Hasp_Type | Specifies the type of HASP security
key being used. Available settings are: Default,
Japan_IBM and Japan_NEC. |
| RefDelLoad | Specifies the behavior of
gATTACH as it loads a raster file with an associated .REF file. If set to 1,
the .REF is deleted. If set to 0, the .REF file is kept. |
| RefMkSave | Specifies whether a .REF file is
created for each attached image when AutoCAD SAVEASR12 and SAVEASR13
commands are invoked. |
| DefaultRasterLayer | Establishes the name of a layer on which images are placed when attached using gATTACH. |
| RasterColor | Defines the layer color for the layer named in the DefaultRasterLayer config
parameter. Any color from 0-255 can be
used. |
| BkCompMode | When set to 1, this overrides
AutoCAD’s normal behavior to make it behave more like earlier versions of the
GTXRaster CAD Series. When a drawing containing attached images is opened, any
image that does not have the same name as the drawing is detatched, deleting
its image entities. Any raster file with the same name as the drawing will then
be attached using any .REF files to register the raster in the vector drawing. |
| 3P_APP_EDIT | Should be
set to Yes when another 3rd party
application will also be editing raster images. This will cause more overhead to keep RCAD in sync with the 3rd
party application raster edits. When
set to 'YES', RCAD will not perform transparent saving of edited raster images. |
| 3P_APP_SAVING | Used
when another 3rd party application will also be performing transparent saving. |
| GACTIVE_ON_GATTACH | Controls
whether a raster image attached with the gATTACH
command should automatically become active (gACTIVE). |
| ENABLE_NOVELL_SAVING | allows saving raster files over Novell 4.x |
NOVELL3_SAVE_METHOD allows saving raster files over Novell 3.x |
Line Width Configuration
The line width configuration table is important to several functions of the GTXRaster CAD Series. Because AutoCAD vector entities have no line width, the GTXRaster CAD Series lets you assign raster line widths to AutoCAD vector colors.
When converting raster to vector, gCONVRT can assign different colors to vectors resulting from
different raster line widths. The gRASTER command converts vector data to raster. When rasterizing, AutoCAD vector
entities of different colors can be rasterized to different line widths. When smoothing raster the gSMOOTH command
can snap raster data to the closest line width listed in this table.
The format for listing a color/linewidth listing is:
Pcolor Color# = LineWidth
in which Color# is the AutoCAD color number to be associated with the raster linewidth. LineWidth is the width of the raster line (this can be measured using the AutoCAD Dist command).
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