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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Get Information
- The User Interface
- Tools in the Application Window
- Other Tool Locations
- Access the Classic Menu Bar
- Toolbars
- Status Bars
- Keytips
- The Command Line Window
- Shortcut Menus
- Tool Palettes
- DesignCenter
- Content Explorer
- Overview of Content Explorer
- Understand the Relationship between Content Explorer and Content Service
- Understand the Content Explorer Window
- Understand How Content Is Indexed
- Understand Watched Folders
- Manage Content Sources
- Basic Searching with Content Explorer
- Advanced Searching with Content Explorer
- Manage Saved Searches in Content Explorer
- Browse Folders with Content Explorer
- Filter Results in Content Explorer
- Sort and Group Results in Content Explorer
- Customize the View in Content Explorer
- Perform Tasks with Files in Content Explorer
- Perform Tasks with Objects in Content Explorer
- Streamline Searches with User-Created Properties in Content Explorer
- Troubleshooting Content Explorer
- Customize the Drawing Environment
- 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)
- Work with Sheets in a Sheet Set
- 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
- Create Objects
- Select and Modify Objects
- Select Objects
- Correct Mistakes
- Erase Objects
- Cut, Copy, and Paste with the Clipboard
- Modify 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
- Specify Settings for Plotting and Publishing
- Save Plot Settings as Named Page Setups
- Reuse Named Page Setups
- Specify Page Setup Settings
- Select a Printer or Plotter for a Layout
- Select a Paper Size for a Layout
- Determine the Drawing Orientation of 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
- Other Ways to Create Page Setups
- Print or Plot Drawings
- 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
- Specify Settings for Plotting and Publishing
- Share Data Between Files
- Reference Other Drawing Files
- Link and Embed Data (OLE)
- Work with Data in Other Formats
- Convert Drawing File Formats
- Import Other File Formats
- Attach Files as Underlays
- Attach Raster Image Files
- Export Drawings to Other File Formats
- 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
If a drawing file is created in a different language version of the operating
system, the following will occur:
■ If support for the language is installed, the file name characters are visible
in Windows Explorer.
■ If support for the language is not installed, the file name characters appear
as a series of boxes in Windows Explorer and a dialog box is displayed
offering to install the language pack.
In either case, you will be able to open the drawing file beginning with
AutoCAD LT 2007 because the product is Unicode-compliant.
NOTE If you share drawing files with companies using earlier releases of the
product, you can avoid file name issues for Asian languages and languages that
use accented characters. In those circumstances, do not use high ASCII values, or
values of 80 hexadecimal and above, when creating a file name.
Maintain Compatibility with Large Object Limits
Drawings saved to a legacy drawing file format (AutoCAD LT 2007 or earlier)
do not support objects greater than 256MB. With the drawing file format,
these limitations have been removed allowing you to save objects that are
greater in size.
When saving to a legacy drawing file format (AutoCAD LT 2007 or earlier),
the drawing cannot contain large objects; there might be compatibility issues
with trying to open the drawing. The LARGEOBJECTSUPPORT system variable
controls the large object size limits used and the warning messages displayed
when a drawing is saved.
The following explains how object size limits for drawings is determined:
■ Drawing files cannot exceed an internal size limit of 4GB. This size is based
on the total size of all objects in a drawing when uncompressed. Since a
drawing file is normally compressed, the final size of a saved drawing file
on disk will vary based on the size and number of objects in a drawing.
■ Each individual object in a drawing cannot exceed an uncompressed size
limit of 256MB. For example, a mesh object, when saved to a file and
compressed, might be 75MB in size while the same object when
uncompressed might be 257MB.
In these situations, the drawing cannot be saved to an AutoCAD LT 2007 or
earlier file format until the issues are resolved. You can resolve the size limits
by breaking the drawing or objects up into several drawings or objects.
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