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CREATING AND EDITING DIMENSION STYLES AND TEXT STYLES IN DRAFTSIGHT


CREATING AND EDITING DIMENSION STYLES AND TEXT STYLES

Aim                                   
To understand creating and editing dimension and text styles in DraftSight software.

Basic Dimensioning
DraftSight provides a full range of Dimensioning tools and utilities. We can use a variety of Dimensioning tools to display measurements of entities or relations between them in drawings.. Dimension Styles are the main method used to control the way Dimensions look. To create dimension click on the entity which a dimension is going to give and click ok.
Set Dimension
Style Click the Dimension Style icon on the Dimension toolbar. The Options - Drafting Styles dialog box is displayed with the Dimensions option expanded.
Modify Dimension Precision
Click the Dimension Style icon on the Dimension toolbar. The Dimension Styles Manager dialog box is displayed. Expand the Linear Dimensions option. View the Linear Dimensions options displayed on the right side of the dialog box. Precision: Select 0.00 from the drop-down menu. Click OK.
Angular Dimension
To Create an Angular Dimension Click the Angular icon from the Dimension toolbar.
Options: Enter to specify vertex or
      Specify entity»
Edit dimension and dimension text
The DimensionEdit command provides the ability to replace the Dimension text with new text, rotate the existing text, move the text to a new position, and if necessary, restore the text back to its home position.
The Dimension Text Edit command provides the ability to move and rotate Dimension text of any single Dimension entity.Text can be added to drawing using the tools Note and Simple Note drawing toolbar. Note Tool used for creating multiple text line entity .Simple Note tool displays text on screen as it is entered. Create Text lines of any position, orientation, justification, height and Text Style can be done using this tools.
Result
Study on creating and editing dimension and text styles is completed.
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  1. Guido3 July 2015 at 09:11

    How do you set Draftsight to always dimension in fractions without changing it every time you open the program?

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