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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Basic Customization
- Custom Linetypes
- Custom Hatch Patterns
- User Interface Customization
- DIESEL
- Command Scripts
- Introduction to Programming Interfaces
- Shapes and Shape Fonts
- Overview of Shape Files
- Create Shape Definition Files
- Shape Descriptions
- Vector Length and Direction Code
- Special Codes
- Use Special Codes
- Codes 0, 1, and 2: End of Shape and Draw Mode Control
- Codes 3 and 4: Size Control
- Codes 5 and 6: Location Save/Restore
- Code 7: Subshape
- Codes 8 and 9: X-Y Displacements
- Code 00A: Octant Arc
- Code 00B: Fractional Arc
- Codes 00C and 00D: Bulge-Specified Arcs
- Code 00E: Flag Vertical Text Command
- Text Font Descriptions
- Sample Files
- Big Font Descriptions
- Unicode Font Descriptions
- Superscripts and Subscripts in SHX Files
- Index
Quick Reference
Commands
LOAD
Makes shapes available for use by the SHAPE command.
SHAPE
Inserts a shape from a shape file that has been loaded using LOAD.
Text Font Descriptions
Text fonts must include a special shape number 0 that conveys information
about the font itself.
AutoCAD for Mac is packaged with numerous text fonts. You can use the
STYLE command to apply expansion, compression, or obliquing to any of
these fonts, thereby tailoring the characters to your needs. You can draw text
of any height, at any baseline angle, and with either horizontal or vertical
orientation using these fonts.
AutoCAD for Mac text fonts are files of shape definitions with shape numbers
corresponding to the ASCII code for each character. Codes 1 through 31 are
for control characters, only one of which is used in AutoCAD for Mac text
fonts:
10 (LF) The line feed (LF) must drop down one line without drawing. This is
used for repeated TEXT commands, to place succeeding lines below the first
one.
*10,5,lf
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