Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
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Text, dimensions, and hatching have long been important clarifying elements in drafting.
In AutoCAD, these elements are flexible almost to a fault — and you can edit and update
them quickly as you change the geometry beneath them. The text, dimension, and
hatching annotations that you add “speak” about the geometry so others can under-
stand exactly what, how big, and how far.
After you've made some drawings that talk, you'll probably send the message around by
printing — or, as CAD users call it, plotting — them. Chapter 16 is your guidebook to
