Introduction to AutoCAD 2011- P4

Introduction to AutoCAD 2011- P4: The purpose of writing this book is to produce a text suitable for students in Further and/or Higher Education who are required to learn how to use the computer-aided design (CAD) software package AutoCAD 2011. Students taking examinations based on CAD will find the contents of the book of great assistance. | 88 Introduction to AutoCAD 2011 3. Left-click the New button and enter Arial in the New text style subdialog which appears Fig. and click the OK button. 4. Left-click the Set Current button of the Text Style dialog. 5. Left-click the Close button of the dialog. CHAPTER 4 Fig. The New Text Style sub-dialog Setting dimension style Settings for dimensions require making entries in a number of sub-dialogs in the Dimension Style Manager. To set the dimensions style 1. At the command line Command enter d right-click And the Dimensions Style Manager dialog appears Fig. . Fig. The Dimensions Style Manager dialog Zoom Pan and templates 89 2. In the dialog click the Modify. button. 3. The Modify Dimension Style dialog appears Fig. . This dialog shows a number of tabs at the top of the dialog. Click the Lines tab and make settings as shown in Fig. . Then click the OK button of that dialog. Fig. The setting for Lines in the Modify Dimensions Style dialog CHAPTER 4 4. The original Dimension Style Manager reappears. Click its Modify button again. 5. The Modify Dimension Style dialog reappears Fig. click the Symbols and Arrows tab. Set Arrow size to 6. 6. Then click the Text tab. Set Text style to Arial set Color to Magenta set Text Height to 6 and click the ISO check box in the bottom righthand corner of the dialog. 7. Then click the Primary Units tab and set the units Precision to 0 that is no units after decimal point and Decimal separator to Period. Click the sub-dialogs OK button Fig. . 8. The Dimension Styles Manager dialog reappears showing dimensions as they will appear in a drawing in the Preview of my-style box. Click the New. button. The Create New Dimension Style dialog appears Fig. . 9. Enter a suitable name in the New Style Name field - in this example this is My-style. Click the Continue button and the Dimension Style Manager appears Fig. . This dialog now shows a preview of the My-style dimensions. Click the .