| AVA | ——— | Controls paper feed at end of drawing |
SYNTAX
AVA feed_flag
ARGUMENTS
| feed_flag | sets the paper feed mode on the plotter
or printer after printing the drawing.
The following values are allowed: 0 inhibits paper feed at the end of the drawing; alternatively, you can enter the OFF string; 1 half page paper feed, or in devices which have this function (HP-GL and HP-GL/2 plotters), paper feed up to the end of the drawing; alternatively, you can enter the HALF string; 2 full page paper feed; alternatively, you can enter the FULL or the ON string. Default
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DESCRIPTION
Allows you to control the paper feed at the end of printing. Option 2 not only transmits a special paper feed command to the device, preparing a subsequent drawing on a new intentionally blank page, but also, in some devices which normally use raster technology, provokes printing of the last drawing transmitted and its deletion from the device's memory.
In devices which use raster technology, you should use the code only in the last drawing if you want to merge (GRA MERGE) two or more drawings.
The code without arguments is equivalent to GRA ADVANCE 2
| See also: | FRA
GRA MERGE GRA NCOP GRA ODVT |
| BRE | ——— | Allows you to stop printing for pen change |
SYNTAX
BRE pen1 [pen2 [ ... ]]
ARGUMENTS
| pen1 ... numbers identifying the pens at which the plotter must stop to allow a change |
DESCRIPTION
Allows you to temporarily interrupt printing of the drawing, when GBPLO
detects an entity whose pen attribute is equal to one of the values specified
with pen1 pen2 ... You can, therefore, change the pen on the device,
fitting that required. To continue printing the drawing, press Carriage
Return (Enter, ...).
| DEF | ——— | Defines symbolic names |
SYNTAX
DEF symbolic_name actual_name
ARGUMENTS
| symbolic_name | string with which the actual name specified is symbolically identified |
| actual_name | actual name or pathname for which a symbolic name is defined |
DESCRIPTION
This directive, which can be used only in the initialization file, allows you to define a symbolic_name which will be used in the directives which follow the DEF in the initialization file in place of the specified actual_name: each occurrence of the symbolic_name will be substituted with the actual_name.
The directive is case sensitive: aBc ¹ AbC.
A maximum of 10 different DEF directives can appear in the same initialization file.
Recursiveness is not allowed: you cannot use symbolic names defined with a DEF directive as actual names in another DEF directive. For example, if you enter the directive:
DEF DIRMASTER /mainhost/root1/cad,
a symbolic name for /mainhost/root1/cad/drawings cannot be given using a directive of the following type:
DEF DIRDIS DIRMASTER/drawings
and you must, therefore, use:
DEF DIRDIS /mainhost/root1/cad/drawings
Obviously, the DEF directive proves very useful when you have to use
long pathnames more than once.
| DIM | ——— | Defines sheet size |
SYNTAX
DIM size | xmax ymax
or:
GRA FORMDsize | xmax ymax [un_measure ]
ARGUMENTS
| size | defines sheet dimensions by specifying
the standard size; the following values are allowed:
A0 1189 x 841 mm; A0R (A0 horizontal); A1 841 x 594 mm; A1R (A1 horizontal); A2 594 x 420 mm; A2R (A2 horizontal); A3 420 x 297 mm; A3R (A3 horizontal); A4 297 x 210 mm; A4R (A4 horizontal); A5 210 x 149 mm; A5R (A5 horizontal). xmax real number, defines maximum dimension in cm along the x-axis. ymax real number, defines maximum dimension in cm along the y-axis. un_measure unit of measure for the values xmax ymax; values allowed: MM millimeters (default); CM centimeters. |
DESCRIPTION
Allows you to define the size of the drawing either through the standard sizes or by specifying the dimensions and the relative unit of measure.
The size is considered the same as the size of the sheet loaded on the
plotter, even if the actual dimensions of the sheet are different.
| See also: | GRA ODVL |
| DRC | ——— | Defines the drawing directory |
SYNTAX
DRC drawing_dir Default:
ARGUMENTS
| drawing_dir | pathname of the directory to be searched for drawings entered |
DESCRIPTION
Allows you to define the directory to be searched for the drawings entered
with the option -F and the symbol library defined with LSI, if you do not
specify the complete pathname.
| See also: | LSI |
| DRE | ——— | Specifies the think3 application installation root directory |
SYNTAX
DRE pathname
Default: GBPLO installation root directory.
ARGUMENTS
| pathname | pathname of the think3 application installation root directory |
DESCRIPTION
Allows you to specify the think3 application installation root directory, used by GBPLO to determine the fonts to be used in drawings generated in the think3 environment. These fonts reside in the "fonts" subdirectory of the said root directory.
If you do not specify the root directory, GBPLO assumes the GBPLO (DRO)
installation root directory.
| See also: | DRO |
| DRF | ——— | Defines font directory |
SYNTAX
DRF font_directory
or
GRA DIRF font_directory
ARGUMENTS
| font_directory | pathname for font search (node, directory and subdirectory) |
DESCRIPTION
Defines the directory containing the font archives (which can be used by the application with text quality 4 or after the GRA FLOAD command for text quality 3) by specifying the pathname, or node, directory and subdirectory, depending on the operating system used
If you do not specify the pathname or if font_directory is
blank, the program searches for the fonts in the run directory of the
application program.
| See also: | GRA FLOAD |
| DRO | ——— | Defines installation root directory |
SYNTAX
DRO root_dir
ARGUMENTS
| root_dir | pathname of the installation root directory. |
DESCRIPTION
Allows you to specify the installation root directory, used by GBPLO to construct the name of several files specified in the relative mode (MSG).
Has no effect on files and directories specified with GRA keys.
| See also: | MSG |
| FER | ——— | Defines error file |
SYNTAX
FER pathname
ARGUMENTS
| pathname | pathname of the error file |
DESCRIPTION
Allows you to specify the pathname of a file which will be used to record
any error indications otherwise displayed on-screen.
| FQU | ——— | Defines angle dimension unit of measure |
SYNTAX
FQU ang_unit
ARGUMENTS
| ang_unit | code identifying the unit of measure to
be used for the representation of angle dimensions. Values allowed:
SDEC sexadecimal degrees SGEN sexagesimal degrees CEN centesimal degrees RAD radian degrees Default: SGEN
(sexagesimal degrees).
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DESCRIPTION
Allow you to define the unit of measure to be used for the representation
of angle dimension in the drawing.
| FRA | ——— | Framing On/Off |
SYNTAX
FRA framing_flag
ARGUMENTS
| framing_flag | flag which can assume the following
values:
ON activates framing mode; OFF inhibits framing mode (default). |
DESCRIPTION
Allows you to switch the frame drawing mode On/Off on those plotters which have the function (BGL, HP-GL, HP-GL/2).
Framing is a mode in which plotting occurs on pages obtained by suitably splitting the drawing along the x-axis.
The splitting of the pages along the x-axis (frame step) depends on the plotter specification and must be known to the program if it is to split the drawing correctly. In the case of plotting off line (output to file) you must tell the program the size of the frame step using the code GRA P1P2.
If framing is On, you cannot merge two or more drawings on the same sheet (GRA MERGE), nor can you make multiple copies (NCO).
In HP-GL/2 use framing only if the drawing is particularly complicated and the data transmitted exceeds the plotter memory capacity.
The code without arguments is equivalent to FRA ON.
If the -COM option is present, framing is always Off.
| See also: | GRA MERGE
GRA P1P2 GRA SHP1P2 NCO |
| GRA ARCD | ——— | Controls discretization when drawing arcs |
SYNTAX
GRA ARCD disc
ARGUMENTS
| disc | real number, defines the discretization
step for drawing arcs (default -3);
values allowed and meanings: >0 fixed discretization step value (real number in degrees); <0 discretization precision (real number). Default: -3. In some cases the directive is ignored if the
arc drawing mode is hardware: GRA ARCM HW.
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DESCRIPTION
Allows you to control the discretization to be used when drawing arcs.
A positive discretization value defines a fixed step, i.e.: irrespective of the arc radius; the value indicated is the angle (expressed in degrees) subtended by the step.
If you enter a negative discretization value, the step is calculated so as to maintain the camber relative to each discretization section below a number output device units (pixels on screen or unit on plotter) equal to the absolute value of the value indicated. Note: in the latter case, the discretization depends on the radius.
The said discretization has no effect if the arcs are drawn in HW mode,
except in HP-GL and HP-GL/2 output formats (see manual for HP-GL, CT instruction).
For hardware texts, you must also specify the QTE directive (run option:
-QT) during the initialization phase
| See also: | GRA ARCM
GRA LTRM |
| GRA ARCM | ——— | Defines arc drawing mode |
SYNTAX
GRA ARCM option
ARGUMENTS
| option | may assume the following values:
HW: hardware mode; SW: software mode; PO: polyline mode. Default: HW.
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DESCRIPTION
Allows you to set the arc drawing mode, selecting from three possible modes.
Hardware mode: the arcs are drawn depending on the modes of the device used. Not all devices have the hardware mode for drawing arcs and this cannot always be used (e.g.: drawing dashed arcs, center off-screen, etc.). If the HW mode is On, for those in which it cannot be applied, the program automatically switches to SW mode.
Software mode: the arcs are drawn in individual segments using an algorithm prepared by the program.
Polyline mode: the arcs are drawn using a polyline.
The discretization step value defined with GRA ARCD may be ignored on
some devices when the HW mode is selected and effectively used.
| See also: | GRA ARCD
GRA LTRM |
| GRA CMAP | ——— | Defines content of color map elements |
SYNTAX
GRA CMAP {numcol red green blue}
ARGUMENTS
| numcol (integer) | Identifies the position of the
color in the color map or conventional value;
values allowed and meanings: 0:255 assigns the specified position on the logical color map the three color components specified, taking into account any mapping set with the GRA COLCH code. 1000:1255 assigns the specified position less 1000 (nco -1000) of the actual color map, the three color components specified, without taking into account any remapping. |
|
red | (integer from 0 to 255) defines the value of the red component. |
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green | (integer from 0 to 255) defines the value of the green component. |
|
blue | (integer from 0 to 255) defines the value of the blue component. |
DESCRIPTION
Defines the content of a position on the color map in terms of the primary color (red, green, blue) components. In other words, generates a table of the associated pen (number) and color (RGB components).
Can be used in the following formats:
HP-GL/2
PostScript
CALCOMP - CDCL, when you set the "plotter degree of intelligence" to
2 with GRA INTPL.
| See also: | GRA COLCH
GRA INTPL GRA NCOLS GRA ODVT |
| GRA COLCH | ——— | Manages match between logical pen and physical pen |
SYNTAX
GRA COLCH {logical_pen physical_pen}
ARGUMENTS
| logical_pen | integer identifying the logical pen number; values allowed 0:255 |
| physical_pen | integer identifying the physical pen; only positive or null values are allowed, provided that they are amongst the number of colors allowed by the device or limited by GRA NCOLS |
DESCRIPTION
Allows you to redefine the matches between elements of the logical color map (of the program) and those of the physical color map on the output device. That is to say, allows you to define an association between the logical pens and the physical pens on the device.
The GRA COLCH code can modify the functioning of the subsequent GRA CMAP codes with color index > 255.
The default match between the two color maps is organized as follows.
| See also: | GRA CMAP
GRA NCOLS GRA ODVT |