Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
introducing Dimension Styles
Dimension styles are similar to text styles but give you more options to control.
You set them up in the same way, but many parameters control the various
parts of dimensions, including the dimension text.
Before you start setting up a dimension style, you need to make a few changes
to your drawing to prepare it for dimensioning:
1.
Open
11A-FPLAY4.dwg
.
This is the cabin with hatch patterns added to all the views. If you
didn't complete the “If You Would Like More Practice” section in the
previous chapter, you can download the ile from the topic's website.
2.
Create a new layer called A-ANNO-DIMS
,
assign color 7 (White), and
make it current.
3.
Freeze all the remaining layers except 0, A-ANNO-TEXT, A-DECK,
A-DECK-STRS, A-DOOR, A-GLAZ, A-ROOF, A-WALL, and all of the
A-ELEV layers without a -PATT or -BNDY suffix.
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The Layer States Manager is an incredibly powerful tool that will allow you to
restore the state of a large number of layers. Although it cannot create any
layers, it can save, export, and import nearly every layer property found in
the Layer Properties Manager palette. By default these are saved inside the
DWG file itself, but they may also be exported to an external file. Assuming
you have employed a solid layer standard like the NCS, you can build a library
of layer states to automate tasks such as turning layers on/off, changing the
color of layers, and more.
Instead of making the layer visibility changes in step 3 manually, try import-
ing and restoring a layer state found in this chapter's set of download files.
1.
Select Manage Layer States from the Layer States drop-down list found
on the Home tab ➢ Layers panel.
The Layer States Manager dialog box opens.
2.
Click the Import button in the Layer States Manager dialog box, and
browse to the file
12-Start.las
, found in the Chapter 12 down-
load. To see the file, you may need to change the Files Of Type setting
to Layer States in the Import Layer State dialog box.
After you click Open to load the
12-Start.las
file, the Layer State -
Successful Import dialog box opens.
(Continued)
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