Topic: What is DICTIONARY?

[HasanCAD]

Refer to this thread, I am studying, I stuck with the dictionary
SO
What is DICTIONARY?
How to deal with DICTIONARY?
How to read contents of DICTIONARY?
What is vailability of writing to DICTIONARY?

Thanks

[irneb]

A dictionary in ACad is a way of saving settings or data into the drawing or attaching to an object. The dictionary is similar to the table objects (like DimStyle/Blocks/etc.) but can be attached to anything else in the drawing, e.g. to a line or a layer or whatever you want. Main difference is you use the dict* functions to access/modify them instead of the tbl* functions. And unlike table you can create your own custom dictionary and call it what you like.

E.g. the new Annotative Scales are saved as a dictionary of the drawing, then they are attached to various objects through attached dictionaries. As a sample to show all dictionaries inside a drawing (but not attached to anything) see my code (DictEdit) here: http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?78139-remove-data-link-from-drawing

As a sample to see dictionaries attached to objects: http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?126661-Annotation-scales-to-list-Change-annotation-scale-from-paperspace

[HasanCAD]

A dictionary in ACad is a way of saving settings or data into the drawing or attaching to an object.
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