Text Styles

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        Menu: Format –  Text Style …

        Toolbar: Styles –

        Toolbar: Text –

 Command line: ST, STYLE, TEXTPROPSCMD

The text style is a set of parameters to format text objects.

Each text object in the drawing is created using the current text style. If you want to create text using a different text style, you can make another text style current. You can create and use multiple text styles in a single drawing.

nanoCAD comes with the Standard text style.

The default text style is assigned in the Settings nanoCAD (PARAMS) dialog box on the Main options tab in the Design – Default Text Style section.

Text styles are saved with the document in a *.dwg file. They can also be saved for transfer to another computer in a template file (*.dwt).

The Text Styles toolbar is designed to manage text styles and their parameters:

The top of the toolbar displays the name of the current text style, the text style search field, and the following buttons:

Below there is a list of test styles in the form of a table with the following columns:

To sort the list of text styles by any parameter, simply left-click on the header of its column.

The following commands are available in the context menu to perform operations with text styles:

Creating a Text Style

By default, the text style being created has the properties of the style selected as current. If you select a text style before clicking the Add Style button, the properties of this style will be used for the new text style.

Created styles can be later edited, renamed, or deleted. After renaming a text style, its name is updated in all text objects that use this style.

The name of a text style should contain at least one character and no more than 255 characters. Names should not be duplicated. The following characters are not allowed: < > / \ “ ” : ; ? * | , = `. By default, the text style being created is assigned the name StyleN, where N is the sequence number of the created text style, starting with 1.

To create a text style:

1.      Select a text style on which the new one will be based.

2.      Click the  Add Style button (or select the New style in the context menu). A new style will be created with StyleN default name.

3.      To rename, click in the Name column (or select Rename Style in the context menu of the selected style) and specify a new name for the text style.

4.      In the drop-down list of the Font column, select the font file.

5.      Specify the remaining font parameters (font shape, height, etc.).

6.      To set the text style as current, left-click in the icon display column opposite the name of the selected style. The  icon indicates that this style is current.

Deleting a Text Style

You can delete text styles that are not used in a document.

You cannot delete the following text styles:

·         the Standard service text style;

·         the text style being used;

·         the current text style, even if it is not used in the document.

Unused text styles can also be removed using the PURGE (-PURGE) command.

To delete a text style:

1.      Select one or more styles in the list.

2.      Click the  Delete Style button (or select Delete Style in the context menu).