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PROPERTIES TOOLBAR

PROPERTIES TOOLBARà

We have “color control”, “line type control” and “line weight” control” options in the properties toolbar.

Using the Color option, we can have different colors for drawing different objects. We can choose the colors from the “select color” dialog box, by using the select color option from the color control.

In order to specify different line weights for different objects, we need to to select a value from the list of line weight option and switch on the “SHOW/HIDE LINE WEIGHT” option from the Status bar in order to view the different line weights on the screen.

In order to load different line types on to the current drawing file, we click on the line type control option and chose the option “other”. A “LINE TYPE MANAGER’ dial box appears on the screen, wherein we have the “load” OPTION in order to load the selected line types from the “LOAD/RELOAD LINETYPE” dialog box. We make that line type current which is to be used for making drawings. We can delete any selected line type from the file, provide it is not used in the drawing. The dash size of all the line types in the drawing is the result of the multiplication factor of GLOBAL SCALE FACTOR and CURRENT OBJECT SCALE FACTOR But any change in the global scale factor value will change the dash size of all the line types of all the objects in the entire drawing file. But any change in the current object scale factor value will change the dash size of only the line types of only those objects which are created after changing the value.