General variables
Last modified by Dennis Knudsen on 2023/09/06 11:03
Below are the general variables that affect IMPACT for AutoCAD
| Variable | Short description | Default value |
|---|---|---|
| AUTOUPDATEELEMENTEXTENTS | Setting that turns on (default 1)/off (0) if sticking out extensions; corbels, thickenings, endcaps & CIMs should be added to the total measure or not. | 1 |
| AUTOUPDATEELEMENTCIMEXTENTS | Setting that turns on (default 1)/off (0) if sticking out CIMs should be added to the total measure or not. AUTOUPDATEELEMENTEXTENTS overwrites this value. | 1 |
| AXEXPORTCIMLIFTGRPIDS | AX - export type exported from Project Manager. Includes lifts and groups that the user defines as lifts. | 0 (group 2 is considered as the default Lift group) |
| DWGTEXTREINFALT | Defines the text that will be written for the strandpattern in front of the amount. This is shown in the section and works for prestressed beams, prestressed slabs & hollowcores | STRANDPATTERN: |
| DWGDIMPLANNBROFDIMGAPSTOTAL | The number of gaps between the total measurement and the other measurements | 1 |
| DWGTEXTDIMPLANCOLUMN | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for columns in plan | 0 |
| DWGTEXTDIMPLANOPENING | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for openings in plan | 0 |
| DWGTEXTDIMPLANOPENINGINWALL | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for openings in walls in plan | 0 |
| DWGTEXTDIMPLANTOTAL | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for the total width in plan | 0 |
| DWGTEXTDIMPLANWALL | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for walls in plan | 0 |
| DWGTEXT | Control annotation text - Bottom | B |
| Text in the reinforcement schedule for stirrups, the text for the endhook1. Text before the direction. | END1 | |
| Text in the reinforcement schedule for stirrups, the text for the endhook2. Text before the direction. | END2 | |
| Text in the reinforcement schedule for stirrups, direction set to opposite, the text for the endhooks. | O | |
| Text in the reinforcement schedule for stirrups, direction set to normal, the text for the endhooks. | N | |
| DWGSYMBOLVIEWMAXROWS | Controls the maximum number of rows for the symbol details. | 0 (no limit) |
| DWGSYMBOLVIEWSCALE | Controls the scale of symbol details | 1 |
| DWGSYMBOLVIEWTEXTHEIGHT | Controls the text size of symbol details | 2 |
| ENABLERIGHTCLICKMENU | The AutoCAD/BricsCAD right-click menu that appears when entities are selected now also includes commands for editing elements and components, the right-click menu can be disabled by setting the variable (not visible in SA) to 0 ( off ). By default it is on (1) | 1 |
| NOTIFICATIONELEMENTSNOTEDITABLE | This notification is fired when the user tries to edit elements that are locked/frozen or not updated, default 2. Currently not visible in Standard Admin. | 2 |
| NOTIFICATIONMODELDRAWINGNOTUPDATED | This notification is fired when opening a plan/elevation drawing that isn’t updated, the possibility to call “Update Plan” or “Update Elevation”, the default value is 2. | 2 |
| NOTIFICATIONNOVALIDELEMENTSSELECTED | This notification is fired when the user tries to edit an element with another element's functions. Default value 2, currently not visible in Standard Admin. | 2 |
| NOTIFICATIONSHOPDRAWINGNOTUPDATED | This is fired when opening a shop drawing that isn’t updated, the possibility to call “Generate element”, the default value is 2. | 2 |
| TABLEREVISIONSHOWLASTROW | Controls if all or only the last drawing revision should be shown | 0 |
| TABLECIMMINNBROFROWS | Controls the minimum number of rows for the CIM table | 3 |
| TABLEHOLEMINNBROFROWS | Controls the minimum number of rows for the Hole table | 3 |
| TABLEMEPKEYMINNBROFROWS | Controls the minimum number of rows for the Mepkey table | 1 |
| TABLERCMINNBROFROWS | Controls the minimum number of rows for the Reinforcement table | 3 |
| TABLEWALLTIEMINNBROFROWS | Controls the minimum number of rows for the Wall tie table | 1 |
| DWGSHEETPLOTTEXT | Text that is plotted on all IMPACT drawings | PLO: $year-$mm-$day $hour:$min $getvar(DWGPREFIX)$dwgname |
| DWGTEXTDIMELEVDOOR | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for doors in elevation | - |
| DWGTEXTDIMELEVDOORINWALL | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for doors in walls in elevation | - |
| DWGTEXTDIMELEVFLOOR | Text at the beginning of the annotation line showing which elements on which floor are measured in elevation | - |
| DWGTEXTDIMELEVHORZGAP | The distance between the generated elevation line and the dimension - Horizontal (elevation) | 0 |
| DWGTEXTDIMELEVVERTGAP | The distance between the generated elevation line and the dimension - Vertical (elevation) | 0 |
| DWGTEXTDIMELEVOPENING | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for openings in elements in elevation | - |
| DWGTEXTDIMELEVOPENINGINWALL | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for openings in walls in elevation | - |
| DWGTEXTDIMELEVTOTAL | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for the total width and length of the element in elevation | - |
| DWGTEXTDIMELEVWALL | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for the total width and length of the wall in elevation | - |
| DWGTEXTDIMELEVWINDOW | Text at the beginning of the annotation line for windows in elevation | - |
| DWGTEXTELEVATIONSECTIONTITLE | Text at the beginning of the vertical and horizontal section in elevation drawings. The default today is (Name of the section - Name of the section) | $NAME - $NAME |
| DWGTEXTCENTEROFGRAVITY | Controls the default text for the center of gravity | CG |
| DWGTEXTHEIGHTELEVATION | Sets the text height when creating new elevations in Project Manager in elevation | 3.5 |
| DWGTEXTHEIGHTFLOORPLAN | Sets the text height when creating new floor plans in Project Manager | 3.5 |
| DWGTEXTSECTIONTITLE | Text at the beginning of the vertical and horizontal section in shop drawings. The default today is (Name of the section) | $NAME |
| PREFIXLAYOUTNAME | Controls whether a prefix/suffix should be used for drawing names | 0 (suffix) |
| DWGVPORTTABLE | Controls tables of components in layouts | 0 |
| AUTOCHECKRCPROPOSAL | Controls if the reinforcement proposal should be automatically ticked or not. | 1 |
| TABLERC/CIM/HOLE/WALLTIE/MEPKEYMINNBROFROWS | Controls minimum number of rows | |
| SOLIDCOLORBYMATERIAL | Controls the color of elements (solids) | 1 |
| UNSAVEDELEMENTCOLORRGB | The variable can be configured to set a user-defined element color for unsaved elements in a plan- or elevation drawing. | Green |
| DWGDIMCONTINUOUSSUPPRESSEXTLINE1 | The variable makes it possible to suppress the extension lines for continuous dimension lines. | Predefined |
| DWGDIMCONTINUOUSSUPPRESSEXTLINE2 | The variable makes it possible to suppress the extension lines for continuous dimension lines. | Predefined |
| DWGDIMFLOORPLANCUTSLABDIMSTYLE | Controls which dimension style to use for the dimension, default "IMPACT28" | IMPACT28 |
| DWGTEXTCIMANNOTATION | Sets the blue text which describes the depth of CIM in an element | t= |
| DWGENDCAPVIEWMAXROWS | Controls the presentation of endcap details | 0 |
| DWGDIMSWITCHLAYER | Of on (1), IMPACT will set layer “BASE_DETAIL_DIMENSION” to the current layer when invoking any AutoCAD dimension command. | 0 |
| DWGENDCAPVIEWSCALE | Controls the scale of the endcap views | 1 |
| DWGISOMETRICVIEW8 | Controls the orientation of the solid in shop drawings | 0 |
| DWGVPORTSCALETOFITROUNDOFF | Determines the round off for "scale to fit" scale | 5 |
| DWGVPORTTABLECIMCOLUMN | Controls in which column (0 or 1 where 0 is the column to the right) the CIM table should be placed | 0 |
| DWGVPORTTABLECIMROW | Controls in which row (0,1,2,3) the CIM table should be placed | 0 |
| DWGVPORTTABLEHOLECOLUMN | Controls in which column (0 or 1 where 0 is the column to the right) the hole table should be placed | 1 |
| DWGVPORTTABLEHOLEROW | Controls in which row (0,1,2,3) the Hole table should be placed | 0 |
| DWGVPORTTABLEMEPKEYCOLUMN | Controls in which column (0 or 1 where 0 is the column to the right) the MEP key table should be placed | 1 |
| DWGVPORTTABLEMEPKEYROW | Controls in which row (0,1,2,3) the Hole table should be placed | 3 |
| DWGVPORTTABLERCCOLUMN | Controls in which column (0 or 1 where 0 is the column to the right) the reinforcement table should be placed | 0 |
| DWGVPORTTABLERCSCHEDULECOLUMN | Controls in which column (0 or 1 where 0 is the column to the right) the reinforcement schedule table should be placed | 0 |
| DWGVPORTTABLERCSCHEDULEROW | Controls in which row (0,1,2,3) the reinforcement schedule table should be placed | 2 |
| DWGVPORTTABLERCROW | Controls in which row (0,1,2,3) the reinforcement table should be placed | 1 |
| DWGVPORTTABLEWALLTIECOLUMN | Controls in which column (0 or 1 where 0 is the column to the right) the wall tie table should be placed | 0 |
| DWGVPORTTABLEWALLTIEROW | Controls in which row (0,1,2,3) the wall tie table should be placed | 3 |
| RCSCHEDULEVPORTROTATION | Controls the rotation of the reinforcement schedule | 0 |
| IMP_DRAWING_STATUS_APPROVAL | Silent command for setting drawing status and date of approval and ready for production | 0 |
| RCVIEWVPORTMARGIN | Determines the distance to the margin for viewports. This affect the views 4,5,6 & 7 | 1 |
| VPORTMARGIN | Determines the distance to the margin for viewports. This does not affect the views 4,5,6 & 7 | 1 |
| DWGELEVHORZSECTIONCIMTOLERANCEAFTER | Sets the "tolerance after" value for the CIM, horizontal section in elevation | 200 |
| DWGELEVHORZSECTIONCIMTOLERANCEBEFORE | Sets the "tolerance before" value for the CIM, horizontal section in elevation | 50 |
| DWGELEVHORZSECTIONSHOWALLCIM | Sets if "Include all cast-in materials" should be marked as default in the horizontal section in elevation | 0 |
| DWGELEVHORZSECTIONSHOWCIM | Sets if "Show cast-in materials" should be marked as default in the horizontal section in elevation | 1 |
| DWGELEVVERTSECTIONCIMTOLERANCEAFTER | Sets the "tolerance after" value for the CIM, vertical section in elevation | 200 |
| DWGELEVVERTSECTIONCIMTOLERANCEBEFORE | Sets the "tolerance before" value for the CIM, vertical section in elevation | 50 |
| DWGELEVVERTSECTIONSHOWALLCIM | Sets if "Include all cast-in materials" should be marked as default in the vertical section in elevation | 0 |
| DWGELEVVERTSECTIONSHOWCIM | Sets if "Show cast-in materials" should be marked as default in the vertical section in elevation | 1 |
| DWGDIMELEV | The default selection of dimension lines in the elevation is customizable | 27 |
| DWGDIMELEVPLACING | Sets the placing order for the dimension lines | 2;1;8 |
| DWGDIMPLAN | The default selection of dimension lines in the plan is customizable | 31 |
| DWGDIMPLANPLACING | Sets the placing order for the dimension lines | 16;4;2;1;8 |
| DWGQRCODESIZE | Set to define the size of the QR-code | 0 |
| DWGRECESSCUTMESH | Set "cut reinforcement mesh" as default or not at the recess properties. | 1 |
| DWGTEXTQRCODECONTENTS | Set to define what information the QR-code should contain | 0 |
| SOLIDTRANSPARENCY | Sets the transparency for the solid view in shop drawings | 0 |
| EXPORT_DDB2_SPENNCON | Adds extra information to the DDB2-export from the Project Manager if added | 0 |
| UNITECHNIKCIMGROUPIDASTYPEOFMOUNTPART | Possibility to add an id to single CIM:s to be able to sort them out in the laser. | 0 |
| USECIMSIZEFORELEMENTEXTENTS | When the setting is on the application uses the size values of the cast-in materials to calculate the extension of the elements. When the setting is off the application uses the block reference size of the cast-in materials to calculate the extension of the elements. | 1 |
| MOUNTPARTDESIGNATIONMEPITEMPANEL2 | Shows panel 2 MEP-keys in panel 1 in the Unitechnik file | 0 |
| PRODUCABILITYLOGFILENOERRORS | Sets if there should be created a Producibility log file if there are no errors | 1 |
| PRODUCABILITYLOGFILEEXTENSION | Sets the file extension of the producibility log | Log |
| VISIBILITYBUILDING | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Building" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYDEFINITION | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Definition" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYELEMENTHEIGHT | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Height" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYELEMENTID | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Element id" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYELEMENTLENGTH | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Length" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYELEMENTMARK | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Element mark" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 1 |
| VISIBILITYELEMENTMASS | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Mass" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYELEMENTSIZE | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Size" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYELEMENTWIDTH | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Width" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYELEVATIONLINE | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Elevation line" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYELEVATIONZ | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Depth placing" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYERECTIONSEQUENCE | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Erection sequence" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYFLOOR | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Floor" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYPHASE | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Phase" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYSTRANDPATTERN | Settings Plan - Sets if the property "Strandpattern" should be shown in the plan. This can be shown for prestressed slabs, prestressed beams, and hollow cores. | 0 |
| VISIBILITYTRANSPORTID | Settings Plan/Elevation - Sets if the property "Transport no" should be shown in the plan/elevation. | 0 |
| SINGLEFILEPLOT | Settings Plot - Sets if each plotted drawing should use a new AutoCAD Session instead of the default 10 per session. | 0 |
| SINGLEFILEBATCHSIGN | Settings Batch sign - Sets if each batch signed drawing should use a new AutoCAD Session instead of the default 10 per session. | 0 |
| SINGLEFILEPUBLISH | Settings Publish - Sets if each Published drawing should use a new AutoCAD Session instead of the default 10 per session. | 0 |
| WAITINGTIMEFORSCRIPTTORUN | Sets the timeout in seconds for the AutoCAD session if "SingleFile" is used. | 0 |