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Draw: Text: M: Text T: C: T

The document discusses how to customize text and dimension styles in AutoCAD. It explains how to modify font size, color, and other text formatting options directly or through text styles. It also describes how to adjust dimension overall size, precision, and text alignment using dimension style properties. Finally, it outlines different dimension types like linear, aligned, angular, radius, and their uses.

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Draw: Text: M: Text T: C: T

The document discusses how to customize text and dimension styles in AutoCAD. It explains how to modify font size, color, and other text formatting options directly or through text styles. It also describes how to adjust dimension overall size, precision, and text alignment using dimension style properties. Finally, it outlines different dimension types like linear, aligned, angular, radius, and their uses.

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Dr.

Majdi Alkhresheh

Draw:Text
M:Text T: C:T

TowriteText:toeditthetypeoftext,thickness,color,andother options.
PCPrompt Specifyfirstcorner(by clicking) specifyoppositecorner YourResponse Clicktodefineacornerofthetextrectangle Clicktospecifyoppositecorner.Atextareaopens towrite,alongwithatextformattingtoolbar

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Draw:Text
Style Font size color

text formatting tool bar alignment

Changestothetextcanbechangingitssize,color,andfont.Inaddition textcanbeunderlined,italic,orbold.Thesechangescanbemadein twomethodsasexplainednext.

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Draw:Text
1 directlyontheindividualtextobjectbyselectingthetextand changingitsfontoranyothervariable.

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Draw:Text
2 Bycreatingatextstylewithcertaincharacteristicsandassigningtext objectstoit. TomodifyanexitingstyleorcreateanewstylegotoStylesToolbar

Styles Tool bar

Clickthetextstyle icontoopenitsdialoguebox

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Draw:Text
Inthetextstyledialogueboxchoosenewtocreateanewstylewiththe nameMystyle,withthefont Verdana,withthewidthfactor 2,bold,andwithanobliqueangleof30.Andhitclose.

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Draw:Text
Nowyoucanchangethetextstylefromthestylestoolbartomystyle andwriteusingit.

Youcanusematchproperties tocopythetextstyleofoneobjectto anotherone.

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Draw:Region
M:Draw:Region T: C:Reg Regionisa2Dsortof solidobjectthatcanbecreatedusinganexisting 2DobjectslikeclosedPolylines andlines.
PCPrompt Selectobject YourResponse Selectobjectbyclickingforpolylinee,or crossingforlinestoincludealllinesthat createanisland.

1loopextracted,1regioncreated.

ThemostimportantapplicationthatusesregionisBoolean operations.Nextslidewillexplainhowtousethemwithregions.

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Draw:Region
1 Drawarectangleandacircleasshown,changethemintoregions. 2 Getthetoolbarmodeling out.

3 UsethethreebuttonsintheredrectangletoUnion,subtract,or intersect theregions.Inbothunionandintersect,objectscanbe selectedatthesametime,subtract,ontheotherhand,AB,A should beselected,then,spacebar,thenB'.

Union

Subtract

Intersect

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Dimension
Dimensionhasitowntoolbar:rightclickanyicon,activatedimension toolbar. Dimension:istoassigndistancestoAutoCADobjects.Iwillexplainfirst howtocustomizeyourdimensions.Letsdrawa50X50squarefirst, andassignahorizontaldimensionforitsloweredge.Uselinear dimensionforthat.
PCPrompt Specifyfirstextensionline Specifysecondextensionline Specifydimensionlinelocation YourResponse Clickthelowerleftcornerofthesquare Clickthelowerrightcornerofthesquare Dragthedimensiondowntoplaceit,orenter thedistanceyouwant.

Thedimensionlineisdrawninred lines,butitsobviouslynotseen clearlywiththewholeobjectat thesametime.

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Dimension
Zoomisneededtoseethedimensionobject.Inordertocorrectthis problem,weneedtomodifyavariablecalledoverallsizeofthe dimension.Thiscanbedoneusingthedimensionstylemanager Usedimensionstylemanagertoeithermodifyanexitingstylelike standard ortocreateanewstyle.Itisagoodideatoleavethe standarddimensionstyleasis,soletuscreateanewstyleand callit DIM1.Hitnew,thenaddthenameinthenextdialoguebox,continue, andOK.

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Dimension
Nowclickthe dimensionstylemanager selectDIM1,hitmodify,from Fit pagechangetheoverallscale from1.0to10.0.

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Dimension
HitOK,andclose.Youseenochangehappenedtothedimensionobject becauseitbelongstothestandardstyleandnottheDIM1style. Select thedimensionobjectinthedrawing,gotothedimensiontoolbarand selectDIM1asitsstyle.Younoticethatthedimensiontextisclearly shownnow

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Dimension
Thesecondthingtocustomizeisthenumberofdigitsbeyondthe decimal point.Currentlywehavefourzeros,wecanchangethemtotwo.Goto dimensionstylemanager,selecttheDIM1style,fromthepage primaryunits changetheprecisionvalueto0.00.HitOKandclose.

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Dimension
Thethirdthingtocustomizeisthe alignmentofthetexttothe dimensionline.Letsdrawanother dimension,averticalonethis time.MakesurethatDIM1isthe currentstyle(itappearsinthe dimensiontoolbar).Uselinear dimension,clicklowerleftcorner, thenupperleftcorner,anddrag thedimensiontotheleftagood distance.Youwillnoticethatthe textintheverticaldimensionis horizontal,letschangeittobe alignedwiththedimensionline.

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Dimension
FromDimensionstylemanager,selectDIM1,modify,thenfromthe pagetext fromtheparttextalignment changethetext alignmentfromhorizontal toAlignwithdimensionline.

HitOKandclose, thetextinthe vertical dimensionis alignedwiththe dimensionline

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Dimension
Nowforthetypesofdimensions: 1 Lineardimensionisfororthogonaldimensioning,itmeasures horizontalandverticaldifferences.

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Dimension
2 Aligned:fornonorthogonaldimensions;itmeasuresinclinedlines. Selectthetwopoints.

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Dimension
3 ArcLength.Clickonthearc,anddragthedimensionobject.

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Dimension
4 Radius.Clickoncircleorarcanddragoutsideorinsidetoplaceradius dimension.

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Dimension
5 Diameter.Clickoncircleorarcanddragoutsideorinsidetoplace diameterdimension.

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Dimension
6 Angular.Tomeasureanglesclickononeedgeoftheangle,then the otheredgeanddragtoplacetheangledimension.Noticethatthe precisionfortheangulardimensionis0,youcanchangeitto0.00if youwant.

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Dimension
Continue 7 Twotypesofdimensionsthat needanexistingdimension first. 71 Continue:itcontinuesan existingdimension,itfirst assumesthedimensiontobe thelastdimensionyoudrew.If not,hitspacebarandselectthe dimensionyouwant. 72 Baselinedimension:this onecontinuesanexisting dimensionstartingalwaysfrom thesamepoint.(Alwayshit spacebartocorrectthe AutoCADwrongassumptionof whichdimensiontocontinue) andselecttherightone

Baseline

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