Specifies custom properties for plotted DXB files.
This nonsystem driver plots to DXB (drawing interchange binary) files, a file format that has only vector capabilities. The output is compatible with the AutoCAD DXBIN command and with the ADI DXB driver delivered with earlier AutoCAD releases. It shares the following limitations of the ADI driver:
- It produces 16-bit integer DXB files containing only vectors.
- DXB output is monochrome; all vectors are color 7.
- Raster images and embedded OLE objects are not supported.
- The driver ignores object and plot style lineweights.
Use the Custom Properties dialog box to set the maximum resolution of the DXB output. Because 16-bit DXB files have a limited coordinate space, the highest resolution settings are only available for smaller "paper" sizes. If you select a high value for maximum resolution and then select a large paper size (for example, ANSI E), a warning is issued indicating the resolution was reduced to accommodate the large plot size.
The resolution control primarily influences the tessellation level of objects. If you set the resolution to a low level, arcs, circles, text, and so on, will be drawn with less tessellation, while at higher resolution settings, more tessellation segments are generated, which creates a larger plot file.
Entities such as solids and lines with thickness are stroked with line segments that have a single-dot width. Decreasing the resolution decreases the number of segments needed to fill these entities and reduces the DXB file size.
This DXB file driver does not plot raster-image entities. The driver plots an outline rectangle instead.