Metric Tutorials - Autodesk

During this exercise, specific modifications are not dictated. You are merely pointed to each area where you
can adapt the template to your needs. For more details on modifying these settings, see the previous lesson,
Modifying System Settings on page 73, or refer to the Help documentation.
Create and modify materials
1 Click Settings menu ➤ Materials.
2 Scroll down the Name list.
Observe the materials that are already defined. You may want to rename or modify some of the
existing materials. If there are materials that are commonly used within your office or industry,
create and modify them as needed.
3 Click OK twice to close the Material Library and Materials dialogs.
Create and modify fill patterns
Specify object styles
4 Click Settings menu ➤ Fill Patterns.
5 Scroll through the list of model and drafting patterns.
TIP Drafting patterns represent materials in symbolic form. Model patterns represent actual element
appearance on a structure. You can align, rotate, and move model patterns.
6 Create new fill patterns as needed, or modify existing patterns.
RELATED See Modifying Project Settings on page 81 for more information on creating new fill
patterns.
7 Click OK when finished.
8 Click Settings menu ➤ Object Styles.
In the Object Styles dialog, you can set line weights, line colors, line patterns, and materials for
different categories and subcategories of components or imported objects.
TIP When the material of a component is set to by category, it adopts the material assigned to its
object styles category.
9 Click the Model Objects tab, and scroll through the list of categories.
10 Modify the properties of any existing categories as needed.
11 If necessary, create new subcategories.
12 Click the Annotation Objects tab.
13 Modify categories, and create new subcategories as needed.
14 Click OK to close the Object Styles dialog.
Modify line weights
15 Click Settings menu ➤ Line Weights.
The Line Weights command controls the display of line widths for each scale of a view. You
can add and delete view scales.
In the dialog, there are 3 tabs: one for model component line styles, one for perspective model
line styles, and one for annotation symbol line styles.
The Model Line Weights tab controls the line width of structural components, such as beams
and columns in orthographic views. The widths are dependent on the scale of the design. You
can define the widths of 16 different pens for 6 different drawing scales.
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