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2 A preview diagram of the line style displays around this component in the
displays here. preview diagram.
• Click on a line style component in the • Click the Up arrow to move the selected
preview to select it and edit it below. component up one position in the list and
• Check Highlight Selection to display a one position to the left in the preview dia-
red rectangle around the currently gram.
selected line style component. • Click the Down arrow to move the
• Check Mark Repeating Segments to selected component down one position in
display vertical dashed lines indicating the list and one position to the right in the
the division between the last component preview diagram.
of one segment and the first component • Click the Remove button to remove the
of the next in the preview diagram. selected component from the line style.
3 These options allow you to add new 5 Control the appearance of the selected
components to your line style. component.
• Click the Dash button to add a line seg- • Specify the Length of a selected Dash or
ment to the line style. Text component. If the Length exceeds
• Click the Dot button to add a single point that required by a Text component, empty
to the line style. space is added on each side of the text.
• Click the Text button to add a section of • Specify the Spacing of the selected com-
text to the line style. ponent by defining the length of an empty
space to the component’s right.
• Select the Insert Before radio button to
add the new component before the com- • Type the Text of a selected Text compo-
ponent that is currently selected. nent.
• Select the Insert After radio button to • Specify the Text Height of a selected
add the new component after the cur- Text component. Each text component
rently selected component. can have its own height.

4 A list of the line style’s individual Text inserted into a line style uses the
components displays here.
font and transparency setting of the Text
• Click on the name of a component in the Style of the layer that it is on when assigned
list to select it. When Highlight Selec- to an object. See “Text Styles” on page 519.
tion is checked, above, a red rectangle

CAD Blocks

A CAD block is a group of 2D CAD objects, a single object. A CAD block can also
text objects, and/or dimensions that have contain other CAD blocks: these are referred
been grouped together so that they behave as to as “nested”.

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