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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Basic Customization
- Custom Linetypes
- Custom Hatch Patterns
- User Interface Customization
- DIESEL
- Command Scripts
- Introduction to Programming Interfaces
- Shapes and Shape Fonts
- Overview of Shape Files
- Create Shape Definition Files
- Shape Descriptions
- Vector Length and Direction Code
- Special Codes
- Use Special Codes
- Codes 0, 1, and 2: End of Shape and Draw Mode Control
- Codes 3 and 4: Size Control
- Codes 5 and 6: Location Save/Restore
- Code 7: Subshape
- Codes 8 and 9: X-Y Displacements
- Code 00A: Octant Arc
- Code 00B: Fractional Arc
- Codes 00C and 00D: Bulge-Specified Arcs
- Code 00E: Flag Vertical Text Command
- Text Font Descriptions
- Sample Files
- Big Font Descriptions
- Unicode Font Descriptions
- Superscripts and Subscripts in SHX Files
- Index
This code draws a one-unit vector up and to the right, a clockwise arc from
octant 3 (with a radius of one unit for two octants), and then a one-unit vector
down and to the right, as shown in the following illustration.
Code 00B: Fractional Arc
Special code 00B (11) draws an arc that doesn't necessarily start and end on
an octant boundary.
The definition uses five specification bytes.
11,start_offset,end_offset,high_radius,radius,(-)0SC
The start_offset and end_offset represent how far from an octant boundary the
arc begins or ends. The high_radius represents the most significant eight bits of
the radius; the high radius will be 0 unless the radius is greater than 255 units.
Multiply the high_radius value by 256 and add that value to the radius value to
generate an arc radius greater than 255. The radius and ending specification
byte are the same as for the octant arc specification (code 00A, described
previously).
You determine the startoffset by calculating the difference in degrees
between the starting octant's boundary (a multiple of 45 degrees) and the start
of the arc. Then, you multiply this difference by 256 and divide by 45. If the
arc starts on an octant boundary, its start offset is 0.
The end offset is calculated in a similar fashion, but you use the number of
degrees from the last octant boundary crossed to the end of the arc. If the arc
ends on an octant boundary, its end offset is 0.
For example, a fractional arc from 55 degrees to 95 degrees with a 3 unit radius
would be coded as follows:
11,(56,28,0,3,012)
Here is the explanation:
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