User Manual - Page 16

For AUTOCAD 2011.

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Creating a Style from the Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860
Creating a Style from an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861
Creating a Tool from a Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862
Renaming a Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863
Copying Styles Between Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863
Sending Styles to Other Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865
Purging Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866
Working with Drawings and Templates in the Style Manager . . . . . 867
Starting a New Drawing or Template in the Style Manager . . . . 868
Opening a Drawing or Template in the Style Manager . . . . . . 868
Dragging a Drawing into the Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . 869
Closing Drawings and Templates in the Style Manager . . . . . . 869
Chapter 13 Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871
Objects That Support Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873
Working with Material Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876
Using the Material Tool to Add Materials to Objects . . . . . . . 877
Creating Custom Material Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879
Material Components and Display Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884
Linework Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885
Plan Hatch Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885
3D Body Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886
Surface Hatch Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886
2D Section/Elevation Linework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887
Section Hatch Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888
Sectioned Body and Sectioned Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888
Displaying Materials in a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889
Working with Surface Hatches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890
Surface Hatches on Curved Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891
Surface Hatches on Multiple Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892
Surface Hatches on Extrusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893
Surface Hatches on Free Form Mass Elements . . . . . . . . . . . 895
Overriding the Surface Hatch on Individual Objects . . . . . . . . . . 895
Hiding a Surface Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896
Displaying a Hidden Surface Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898
Specifying the Rotation of a Surface Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . 899
Specifying the Horizontal and Vertical Offset of a Surface
Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900
Editing Surface Hatch Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902
Displaying a List of Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902
Displaying a Material Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903
Process Overview: Creating and Assigning Materials . . . . . . . . . . 903
Creating and Editing Material Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905
Creating a Material Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905
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