Manage Text Styles Tool

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mouse_20 Library Toolbar : ssManageText

 

Manage Text Styles  Tool is used to create/edit/delete Text Style Objects. See detail description for different properties of Text Style Objects.

 

mouse_20 Using the Manage Text Styles  Tool:

Find one of the Manage Text Styles  Tool icon ssManageText from the Library Toolbar (color coded peach) and highlight it. While highlighted Click on the tool. Manage Text Styles  Dialog will show up and allows editing of Text Style Objects. After performing required operation in manage dialog, left click on OK button to save it to drawing. If Cancel button is left clicked, all the changes performed since opening of this manage dialog are undone.

 

Manage_Text

 

 

mouse_20 Select Text Style:

To select a Text Style, Left click on one of the text style names from the list displayed on left hand side of manage dialog.

 

mouse_20 View Text Styles:

To view properties of Text Style, select a text style as described in Select Text Style section. The Preview section will show the selected text style as it will appear in drawing. All properties for selected text style are displayed on right hand side of manage dialog. Action Buttons available for selected text style will be displayed under Actions section below the text style names list.

 

btnAdd Add Text Styles:

To add Text Style to drawing, Left click on add button (btnAdd) under Actions. This adds a new text style to drawing's text style library. By default the Name property of text style object is set to TextStyleNumber.

 

btnDelete Delete Text Styles:

To delete Text Style from drawing, select a text style as described in Select Text Style section. Left click on delete button(btnDelete) under Actions section. The selected text style will be deleted. Delete button(btnDelete) becomes unavailable when there is no text style selected or selected text style is hsCADCreator's default created text style.

 

btnImportTTF Import Text Styles from a font file (.TTF file):

To import Text Style from a font file, Left click on import button(btnImportTTF) under Actions section. This opens a standard file select dialog. After selecting required font file click on OK and text styles existing in selected font file will be displayed in object selection dialog. Select required text styles and click on Import. Selected text styles will be added to current drawings text style library.

 

Also See:

Text Style Objects

Library Toolbar