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- I have encountered a problem with text styles in AutoCAD 2008. If I use the 'Standard' text style and print using the 'monochrome.ctb' plot settings the text prints out clear and well defined. If I now create a new text style, using thge txt.shx font just like the 'Standard' text style and the same plot settings the text prints out faintly.
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The current text style sets the font, size, obliquing angle, orientation, and other text characteristics. If you want to create text using a different text style, you can make another text style current. The table shows the settings for the STANDARD text style.
Text Style Settings | ||
|---|---|---|
Setting | Default | Description |
Style name | STANDARD | Name with up to 255 characters |
Font name | txt.shx | File associated with a font (character style) |
Big Font /Asian Set | None | Special shape definition file used for a non-ASCII character set, such as Kanji |
Height | 0 | Character height |
Width factor | 1 | Expansion or compression of the characters |
Obliquing angle | 0 | Slant of the characters |
Backwards | No | Backwards text |
Upside down | No | Upside-down text |
Vertical | No | Vertical or horizontal text |
The settings for the current text style are displayed at the command prompts. You can use or modify the current text style or create and load a new text style. Once you've created a text style, you can modify its characteristics, change its name, or delete it when you no longer need it.
Creating and Modifying Text Styles
Except for the default STANDARD text style, you must create any text style that you want to use.
Text style names can be up to 255 characters long. They can contain letters, numbers, and the special characters dollar sign ($), underscore (_), and hyphen (-). If you don't enter a text style name, the text styles are automatically named Stylen, where n is a number that starts at 1.
Certain style settings affect multiline and single-line text objects differently. For example, changing the Upside Down and Backwards options has no effect on multiline text objects. Changing Width Factor and Obliquing options has no effect on single-line text.
If you rename an existing text style, any text using the old name assumes the new text style name.
Changing Text Style
When you change the text style of a multiline text object, the updated settings are applied to the entire object, and some formatting of individual characters might not be retained. The following table describes the effects of text style change on character formatting.
Formatting | Retained? |
|---|---|
Bold | No |
Color | Yes |
Font | No |
Height | No |
Italic | No |
Stacking | Yes |
Underlining | Yes |
Annotative Text Styles
Use annotative text for notes and labels in your drawing. You create annotative text by using an annotative text style, which sets the height of the text on the paper.
Autocad For Mac Text Styles List
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- [Instructor] We're staying in our A100_00 ground drawing,…and I've left it in the same position as it was…at the end of the last video…after we checked the textiles that have come in…with the exported Cad drawing from Rivet.…Now, what we're going to look at now…is generating a whole new textile.…The only bit of text that we have on this drawing is…the text in the grid bubbles giving us our grids.…Our one, two, three, four, five,…and our A down to K going across the top.…
Now, what I want to do is create a new textile for them.…So, the trick will be go to the home tab…on the Ribbon in AutoCad, click on the annotation there,…click on the flyout and select textile again, there.…Now, at the moment, we have set the aerial textile…to be the current text style.…Now, I could utilize that one,…rename it, give it a new font.…I don't want to do that 'cause I might want…to use it again elsewhere.…However, when I click on new,…my new textile now will be called 'Calibri'.…
Autocad Text Styles Examples
Like so.…I click on okay, and it adopts the current font…