georgem Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Hi I am VERY new to cad and very lost. I have grasped the basics but since loading up CAD recently drawing lines does not seem to automatically snap to right angles like it had done before. Where abouts do I tweak this? I also have no idea how to enlarge the annotation text and also limited the decimal points. At the moment i have readings of 0.0000 when 0.00 would suffice. Any ideas? You would really be helping me out with any advice. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberAngel Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 The horizontal/vertical lines come from a setting called Ortho (for orthogonal). There should be a button on your status bar that toggles it on/off, which you may have inadvertently used. "Annotation" has a very specific meaning in AutoCAD. If you mean it in the more general sense, as in pointing out features, you can edit text styles and adjust the height for each style. For annotative text, you need to change the drawing scale. To change your decimal places, use the Units command and set your precision. You can learn more from the Help system. Look up Ortho, Style, Annotation, and Units. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestly Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Ortho is turned OFF by default (thankfully), so I'm more inclined to believe the missing "right angles" is due to the Polar Tracking toolbar button being toggled off. I also think the OP may be referring to dimensions (DIMSTYLE) with regards to size and precision of annotation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Give THIS a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgem Posted July 8, 2011 Author Share Posted July 8, 2011 It was Ortho, I have turned it on now and its helping out a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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