Introduction to AutoCAD 2011- P6

Introduction to AutoCAD 2011- P6: The purpose of writing this book is to produce a text suitable for studentsin Further and/or Higher Education who are required to learn how touse the computer-aided design (CAD) software package AutoCAD2011. Students taking examinations based on CAD will find the contentsof the book of great assistance.
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Introduction to AutoCAD 2011- P6 Dimensions and Text 149Fig. 6.27 TheAutoCAD Messagewindow showingthat spelling check iscomplete Fig. 6.26 The Spell Check… icon in the Annotate/Text panel Continue until all text is checked. When completely checked an AutoCAD Message appears (Fig. 6.27). If satisfied click its OK button. REviSion noTES 1. In the Line and Arrows sub-dialog of the Dimension Style Manager dialog Lineweights chapter 6 were set to 0.3. If these lineweights are to show in the drawing area of AutoCAD 2011, the Show/Hide Lineweight button in the status bar must be set ON. 2. Dimensions can be added to drawings using the tools from the Annotate/Dimensions panel or by entering dim, followed by abbreviations for the tools at the command line. 3. It is usually advisable to use osnaps when locating points on a drawing for dimensioning. 4. The Style and Angle of the text associated with dimensions can be changed during the dimensioning process. 5. When wishing to add tolerances to dimensions it will probably be necessary to make new settings in the Dimension Style Manager dialog. 6. There are two methods for adding text to a drawing – Single Line Text and Multiline Text. 7. When adding Single Line Text to a drawing, the Return key must be used and not the right-hand mouse button. 8. Text styles can be changed during the process of adding text to drawings. 9. AutoCAD 2011 uses two types of text style – AutoCAD SHX fonts and Windows True Type fonts. 10. Most True Type fonts can be in bold, bold italic, italic or regular format. AutoCAD fonts can only be added in the single format. 11. To obtain the symbols Ø; ; °; % use %%c; %%p; %%d; %%% before the figures of the dimension. 12. Text spelling can be checked with by selecting Object/Text/Edit… from the Modify drop- down menu, by selecting Spell Check… from the Annotate/Text panel, or by entering spell or sp at the command line. 150 Introduction to AutoCAD 2010 2011 Exerciseschapter 1 Methods of constructing answers to the following exercises can be found in the free website: http://books.elsevier.com/companions/978-0-08-096575-8 1. Open any of the drawings previously saved 4. Construct two polygons as in Fig. 6.30 and from working through examples or as add all diagonals. Set osnaps endpoint and answers to exercises and add appropriate intersection and using the lines as in Fig. 6.30 dimensions. construct the stars as shown using a polyline of Width  3. Next erase all unwanted lines. 2. Construct the drawing Fig. 6.28 but in place Dimension the angles labelled A, B, C and D. of the given dimensions add dimensions showing tolerances of 0.25 above and below. 220 120 Chamfer 10x10 10 140 60 ø10 90 80chapter 6 25 R20 A D ...