Operation Manual
[ 22 ] Reviewer’s Guide
• Outline: The line that defines the shape of an
object.
• Rendering: To capture a two-dimensional
image from a three-dimensional model.
• Rotate: To reposition and reorient an object by
turning it around its center of rotation.
• S1000D: S1000D is an international
specification for the procurement and
production of technical publications.
• Segment: The line or curve between nodes in
a curve object.
• Skew: To slant an object vertically, horizontally,
or both.
• Snap: To force an object that is being drawn or
moved to align automatically to a point on the
grid, a guideline, or another object.
• Symbol: A reusable object or group of objects.
A symbol is defined once and can be referenced
many times in a drawing.
• Tangent: A straight line that touches a curve or
an ellipse at a point, but does not cross the
curve or ellipse at that point.
• Text baseline: The imaginary horizontal line
that text characters appear to be placed on.
• Transparency: The quality of an object that
makes it easy to see through. Setting lower
levels of transparency causes higher levels of
opacity and less visibility of the underlying
items or image.
• Unicode
®
: A character encoding standard that
defines character sets for all written languages
in the world by using a 16-bit code set and
more than 65, 000 characters. Unicode lets
users handle text effectively regardless of the
language of the text, operating system, or the
application.
• Vector graphic: An image generated from
mathematical descriptions that determine the
position, length, and direction in which lines
are drawn. Vector graphics are created as
collections of lines rather than as patterns of
individual dots or pixels.
• WebCGM: WebCGM is a profile for the
effective application of Computer Graphics
Metafiles (CGM) in electronic documents.
• Workspace: A configuration of settings that
specifies how the various command bars,
commands, and buttons are arranged when
users open the application.