STARTING, LABELLING, AND HATCHING DRAWINGS

UNITS

Controls the precision and display formats for coordinates, distances, and angles.

scientific

[unit report formats] 1 display style: 1.55E+01

decimal

[unit report formats] 2 display style: 15.50

engineering

[unit report formats] 3 display style: 1'-3.50"

Architectural

[unit report formats] 4 display style: 1'-3 1/2"

Fractional

[unit report formats] 5 display style: 15 1/2

Decimal degrees

[unit systems of angle measure] 1 display format: 45.0000

Degrees/minutes/seconds

[unit systems of angle measure] 2 display format: 45d0'0"

Grads

[unit systems of angle measure] 3 display format: 50.0000g

Radians

[unit systems of angle measure] 4 display format: 0.7854r

Surveyor's units

[unit systems of angle measure] 5 display format: N 45d0'0" E

LIMITS

Sets an invisible rectangular boundary in the drawing area that can limit the grid display and limitclicking or entering point locations

LAYER

Manages layers and layer properties.

List Layers

[layer commands] Displays a list of the currently defined layers, showing their names, states, color numbers, linetypes,lineweights, and whether they are externally dependent layers

Make

[layer commands] Creates a layer and makes it current. New objects are drawn on the current layer.

Set

[layer commands] Specifies a new current layer but does not create the layer if it does not already exist. If the layer existsbut is turned oƯ, it is turned on and made current. A frozen layer cannot be made current.

New

[layer commands] Creates layers. You can create two or more layers by entering names separated by commas.

On

[layer commands] Makes selected layers visible and available for plotting.

Color

[layer commands] Changes the color associated with a layer. Enter a color name or a number from 1 through 255.

True Color

[layer commands] Specifies a true color to be used for the selected object. Enter three integer values from 0 to 255 separated by commas to specify a true color.

Color Book

[layer commands] Specifies a color from a loaded color book, guide, or set to use for the selected object. Enter the nameof a color book that has been installed, such as "DIC COLOR GUIDE(R)$DIC 43".

Ltype

[layer commands] Changes the linetype associated with a layer.

Lweight

[layer commands] Changes the lineweight associated with a layer.

Material

[layer commands] Attaches a material to a layer. The material must be available in the drawing before it can be assigned toa layer.

Plot

[layer commands] Controls whether visible layers are plotted. If a layer is set to plot but is currently frozen or turned oƯ,the layer is not plotted

Pstyle

[layer commands] Sets the plot style assigned to a layer.

Freeze

[layer commands] Freezes layers, making them invisible and excluding them from regeneration and plotting.

Thaw

[layer commands] Thaws frozen layers, making them visible and available for regeneration and plotting.

State

[layer commands] Saves and restores the state and property settings of the layers in a drawing.

Xref

[layer commands] Resets the xref layer property override in the current drawing to the layer settings in the xref.

CHANGE or CHPROP

Changes the properties of existing objects.

TEXT

Creates a single-line text object.

TABLE

Creates an empty table object.

Insertion Point

[table commands] Specifies the location of the upper-left corner of the table. If the table style sets the direction of thetable to read from the bottom up, the insertion point is the lower-left corner of the table.

Label Text

[table commands] Retains rows with a cell type of Label found in the table style's starting table.

Data Text

[table commands] Retains rows with a cell type of Data found in the table style's starting table.

Formulas

[table commands] Retains formulas found in the specified table style's starting table.

Fields

[table commands] Retains fields found in the specified table style's starting table.

Data Links

[table commands] Retains data links found in the specified table style's starting table.

STYLE

Creates, modifies, or specifies text styles.

MTEXT

Creates a multiline text object.

HATCH

Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a hatch pattern, solid fill, or gradient fill.

Draw Boundary

Uses specified points to define the boundary of a hatch or fill.

Advanced

Sets the method used to create the hatch boundary.

Boundary Set

Specifies a limited set of objects, called a ___________, for evaluation by the pick point of the hatch

Everything

Creates a boundary set from everything visible in the current viewport. Selecting this option discardsany current boundary set and uses everything visible in the drawing or in the current viewport

Retain Boundary

Creates an object that encloses each hatch object.

Island Detection

Specifies whether to use objects within the outermost boundary as boundary objects.

Nearest

Runs a line from the point you specify to the nearest object and then traces the boundary in acounterclockwise direction

+X/Y

Runs a line in the positive X/Y direction from the point you specify to the first object encountered andthen traces the boundary in a counterclockwise direction.

-X/Y

Runs a line in the negative X/Y direction from the point you specify to the first object encountered andthen traces the boundary in a counterclockwise direction

Style

Specifies the method used to hatch or fill objects within the outermost hatch boundary. If you haveselected no internal objects, a hatching style has no eƯect. Because you can define a precise set ofboundaries, it's often best to use the Normal style

Outer

Hatches or fills inward from the outer boundary. HATCH turns hatching or filling oƯ if it encounters aninternal island. This option hatches or fills only the outermost level of the structure and leaves theinternal structure blank

Normal

Hatches or fills inward from the outer boundary. If HATCH encounters an internal island, it turns oƯhatching or filling until it encounters another island within the island.

Associativity

Specifies that the new hatch pattern is updated when its boundaries are modified.

Gap Tolerance

Sets the maximum size of gaps that can be ignored when objects are used as a hatch boundary. Thedefault value, 0, specifies that the objects must enclose the area with no gaps

Separate Hatches

Controls whether the command creates a single hatch object or multiple hatch objects when severalseparate closed boundaries are specified.

Draw Order

Assigns the draw order to a hatch or fill. You can place a hatch or fill behind all other objects, in front ofall other objects, behind the hatch boundary, or in front of the hatch boundary.

Origin

Controls the starting location of hatch pattern generation

-HATCH

Uses command prompts to fill an enclosed area or selected objects with a hatch pattern, solid fill, orgradient fill

Double Hatch Area

Specifies a second set of lines to be drawn at 90 degrees to the original lines. ((options appear on command line compared to hatch))