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drawing. A symbol instance records the location of a symbol in the drawing. While
you can create many instances of a symbol in a single drawing, AutoSketch only needs
to store its definition once, saving memory. See also symbol library.
symbol array
A series of symbols arranged in a linear, circular, or rectangular
pattern.
symbol basepoint
The point you enter when placing a symbol.
symbol library bar
A bar that displays all of the symbols in the current symbol
library. Holding the pointer over one of the symbols in the palette displays a pop-up
window. Clicking one of the symbols makes it current.
Symbol Explorer
A tool for performing a wide variety of symbol-related functions,
including creating and renaming symbol libraries, copying symbols between libraries
and drawings, deleting symbols, and setting a current library and a current symbol.
symbol library
A file containing one or more symbols. Symbol libraries make it easy
to share symbols across drawings. Symbol libraries use their own file format separate
from the AutoSketch drawing file format. They typically have an extension of .SLB.
Tangent snap
A snap that allows you to specify the tangent point on an arc or circle
from the current point by clicking anywhere along the arc or circle.
template
A drawing file in which all desired parameters such as borders, title blocks,
grid spacing, units, and so on have been set. You can use templates to quickly set up a
new drawing. When you use a template, you should save the new drawing under a
different name to preserve the template file.
terminator
See line terminator.
text angle
In dimensioning, the orientation of the dimension label with respect to
the page. There are two choices: aligned and one direction. Aligned text runs parallel
to the dimension line. One direction text is parallel to the bottom of the page.
text aspect
The ratio of text width to height.
text basepoint
The point used to establish the location of a text string. The text
string is rotated and justified about this point. When so specified on the Visibility page
of the View Options dialog box, text points are displayed on the screen as small crosses.
See also basepoint.
Text Editor
The window that allows multi-line text entry, cutting, copying, and past-
ing to the Clipboard, and merging other text files. The Text Editor is accessed by
double-clicking on an existing text entity or by clicking the Editor button in the Text
Input dialog box.
text entity
A drawing entity comprised of characters from a AutoSketch or TrueType
font.
text height
In AutoSketch, the height of the upper case characters in a font mea-
sured in output size.
tiling pattern
See page tiling.
tolerance
AutoSketch supports two tolerance display modes: plus/minus and range.
Plus/minus tolerance shows the calculated measurement followed by a negative toler-
ance and a positive tolerance. Range tolerance shows the lower end of the range and
Summary of Contents for 00308-011408-9F30A - VLA AUTOSKETCH R8-MEDIA W9X/NT
Page 1: ...October 2001 AutoSketch User s Guide RELEASE 8 ...
Page 12: ...2 ...
Page 20: ...10 Chapter 1 Welcome ...
Page 28: ...18 Chapter 2 Important Concepts ...
Page 42: ...32 Chapter 3 Screen Layout ...
Page 44: ...34 ...
Page 68: ...58 Chapter 5 Setting Up a New Drawing ...
Page 84: ...74 Chapter 6 Customizing the Grid ...
Page 136: ...126 Chapter 10 Entering Lengths Angles ...
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Page 164: ...154 Chapter 12 Polylines Polygons Curves ...
Page 176: ...166 Chapter 13 Arcs Circles ...
Page 194: ...184 Chapter 14 Symbols ...
Page 206: ...196 Chapter 15 3D Effects ...
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Page 256: ...246 Chapter 19 Markers ...
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Page 270: ...260 Chapter 20 Selecting Deleting Entities ...
Page 274: ...264 Chapter 21 Undoing Redoing Repeating Actions ...
Page 308: ...298 Chapter 23 Trimming Entities ...
Page 340: ...330 Chapter 26 Making Inquiries ...
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Page 350: ...340 Chapter 27 Storing Data in a Drawing ...
Page 360: ...350 Chapter 28 Retrieving Data From a Drawing ...
Page 366: ...356 Chapter 29 Using Web Tools ...
Page 388: ...378 Glossary ...
Page 400: ...390 Index ...