DXF header variables

Variable Group code Description

$TDCREATE 40 Local date/time of drawing creation (see Special Handling

of Date/Time Variables)

$TDINDWG 40 Cumulative editing time for this drawing (see Special

Handling of Date/Time Variables)

$TDUCREATE 40 Universal date/time the drawing was created (see Special

Handling of Date/Time Variables)

$TDUPDATE 40 Local date/time of last drawing update (see Special Handling

of Date/Time Variables)

$TDUSRTIMER 40 User-elapsed timer

$TDUUPDATE 40 Universal date/time of the last update/save (see Special

Handling of Date/Time Variables)

$TEXTSIZE 40 Default text height

$TEXTSTYLE 7 Current text style name

$THICKNESS 40 Current thickness set by ELEV command

$TILEMODE 70 1 for previous release compatibility mode; 0 otherwise

$TRACEWID 40 Default trace width

$TREEDEPTH 70 Specifies the maximum depth of the spatial index

$UCSBASE 2 Name of the UCS that defines the origin and orientation of
orthographic UCS settings

$UCSNAME 2 Name of current UCS

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