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You should have at least 1 text style for your dimensions and perhaps a text style for each dimension style. When you create a dimension style, you can create a text style from within the New Dimension Style dialog box. On the Text tab, click the Ellipsis button as shown here. The Text [...] The DIMEDIT command lets you move or rotate dimension text, change text, and create oblique (angled) extension lines. You type it on the command line. You see the following prompt: Enter type of dimension editing [Home/New/Rotate/Oblique] <Home>: You would use it only in certain situations. Clean up dimension text location If the text was [...] You can create a complete table on the fly by importing data from Microsoft Excel. Follow these steps: Select the data in Excel and copy it to the Windows Clipboard. In AutoCAD, choose Home tab@@>Clipboard panel@@>Paste drop-down list@@>Paste Special. In the Paste Special dialog box, choose AutoCAD Entities and click OK. At the [...] Some default settings in AutoCAD slow down its display and you may want to turn them off or change them. Here are some ideas. Please add a comment to contribute your own display speed tips! Text A large drawing with lots of text can slow down your work. Here are some text tips. Quicktext [...] Sometimes, you need text to have a specific line spacing, to fit into a schedule in your drawing. If you can use the TABLE command, that’s great, because the text automatically fits nicely into the rows of the table. But sometimes, you need to fit your text into an existing set of lines, like [...] Column text was introduced in AutoCAD 2008. Columns make fitting your text into tight spaces easier; it also looks more professional. You may have manually created columns in the past, but when you edited the text, the columns didn’t automatically readjust, leading to awkward spaces or lots of reformatting. Follow these steps to create [...] Don’t know which font to use? Until AutoCAD offers a WYSIWYG font drop-down list (send in your wish lists, folks!), you can print out truetype.dwg, which comes with AutoCAD in the /Sample folder. It probably doesn’t contain all the fonts on your computer but does have a sample of enough fonts for most people. [...] Dimensioning in paper space has several advantages: You don’t have to worry about the size of the dimension arrowheads, text, etc. Everything is full size and you plot at 1:1 scale. You can place the dimensions outside the border of the viewport, giving you more room. You can easily dimension some parts of the [...] Are you getting the look you need for your dimensions? Are you constantly making little adjustments? If dimensions aren’t your friend, you need to get more comfortable with dimension styles. In this tutorial, you create an architectural dimension style. Why? Because the default style is a mechanical look and by changing it to architectural, [...] |
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