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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Get Information
- The User Interface
- Start and Save Drawings
- Control the Drawing Views
- Organize Drawings and Layouts
- Create Single-View Drawings (Model Space)
- Create Multiple-View Drawing Layouts (Paper Space)
- Create and Modify Objects
- Control the Properties of Objects
- Work with Object Properties
- Work with Layers
- Work with Colors
- Work with Linetypes
- Control Lineweights
- Control the Display Properties of Certain Objects
- Use Precision Tools
- Use Coordinates and Coordinate Systems (UCS)
- Use Dynamic Input
- Snap to Locations on Objects (Object Snaps)
- Restrict Cursor Movement
- Combine or Offset Points and Coordinates
- Specify Distances
- Extract Geometric Information from Objects
- Use a Calculator
- Draw Geometric Objects
- Change Existing Objects
- Add Constraints to Geometry
- Control the Properties of Objects
- Define and Reference Blocks
- Work with Blocks
- Create and Modify Blocks
- Add Behaviors to Blocks (Dynamic Blocks)
- Overview of Dynamic Blocks
- Quick Start to Creating Dynamic Blocks
- Create and Edit Dynamic Blocks
- Add Action Parameters to Dynamic Blocks
- Work with 3D Models
- Annotate Drawings
- Work with Annotations
- Hatches, Fills, and Wipeouts
- Notes and Labels
- Tables
- Dimensions and Tolerances
- Understand Basic Concepts of Dimensioning
- Use Dimension Styles
- Set the Scale for Dimensions
- Create Dimensions
- Modify Existing Dimensions
- Add Geometric Tolerances
- Plot and Publish Drawings
- Prepare Drawings for Plotting and Publishing
- Quick Start to Saving Settings for Plotting and Publishing
- Specify Page Setup Settings
- Overview of Page Setup Settings
- Select a Printer or Plotter for a Layout
- Select a Paper Size for a Layout
- Set the Plot Area of a Layout
- Adjust the Plot Offset of a Layout
- Set the Plot Scale for a Layout
- Set the Lineweight Scale for a Layout
- Select a Plot Style Table for a Layout
- Set Shaded Viewport and Plot Options for a Layout
- Determine the Drawing Orientation of a Layout
- Use the Layout Wizard to Specify Layout Settings
- Import PCP or PC2 Settings into a Layout
- Create and Use Named Page Setups
- Plot Drawings
- Quick Start to Plotting
- Overview of Plotting
- Use a Page Setup to Specify Plot Settings
- Select a Printer or Plotter
- Specify the Area to Plot
- Set Paper Size
- Position the Drawing on the Paper
- Control How Objects Are Plotted
- Preview a Plot
- Plot Files to Other Formats
- Publish Drawings
- Prepare Drawings for Plotting and Publishing
- Share Data Between Files
- Reference Other Drawing Files
- Link and Embed Data (OLE)
- Work with Data in Other Formats
- Import Other File Formats
- Attach Files as Underlays
- Attach Raster Image Files
- Use Drawings from Different Versions and Applications
- Access External Databases
- Collaborate with Others
- Protect and Sign Drawings
- Use the Internet for Collaboration
- Use Markups for Design Review
- Render Drawings
- Glossary
- Index
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that uses SHX fonts without specifying extra language support.)
Text styles for Asian languages that use SHX and Big Font can support
characters only from the same code page. For example, text styles that use a
Japanese Big Font cannot support German or Korean characters. (English
characters, which are part of every code page, are supported.) Multiple-language
support for non-Asian languages is supported for text styles that use SHX fonts
with Big Fonts disabled. (The SHX font must define the required characters.)
Multiple-language support does not exist in some earlier versions of AutoCAD.
For example, when you save a file to AutoCAD 2000 format, the contents of
multiple-language multiline text may be corrupted. This problem is more
likely to happen when you open and save a drawing on an operating system
with a system language setting that differs from the system in which the
drawing was last saved.
NOTE Drawings that include external references (xrefs) to drawing files saved in
earlier releases also have the limitations described above.
To save drawings with visual fidelity for annotative objects
1 Click Tools menu ➤ Options.
2 In the Options dialog box, Open and Save tab, under File Save, select
Maintain Visual Fidelity for Annotative Objects.
3 Click OK.
Save Drawings to Previous Drawing File Formats
You can save a drawing in a format compatible with previous versions of the
product.
You can save a drawing created with the current release of the program in a
format compatible with previous versions. This process creates a drawing with
information specific to the current release stripped out or converted to another
object type.
If you use the current release to open a drawing created with a previous release,
and you do not add any information specific to the current release, you can
then save the drawing in the format of the previous release without loss of
data.
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