“Font” Tab

 

This tab defines font parameters for all standard detailing elements unless already defined within the detailing elements themselves. These detailing elements are text, dimensions, roughnesses, leader notes and tolerances.

 

Name. Defines name and type of the default font that will be used on text objects creation. T-FLEX CAD supports two types of fonts: TrueType fonts (), that are standard for Windows, and vector fonts in SHX () format. The TrueType and SHX fonts are distinguished in the font menu by the respective icons before the names.

 

Size. Defines the vertical size of the font by capital letters, as, for instance, the height of the character “A”. Any font size is allowed, except 0.

 

Line Spacing. This is the distance between two neighboring lines of a multi-line text. Line interval is set in relative units. To calculate the absolute value of the line interval, multiply this parameter by the font height.

 

Character Spacing. Defines the additional distance between two neighboring characters in a string. This parameter value is also relative. To calculate the absolute value of the additional interval, multiply this parameter by the font height.

 

Stretch. Defines the scale factor for the width of the font symbol. It is possible to specify any value for this factor except 0.

 

Style (TrueType). Defines the font style. This is a standard parameter of fonts and assumes the values supported by Windows, namely normal, semi-bold, italic, semi-bold italic.

 

Index scale. Defines the scale factor for calculating the size of the subscript and superscript fonts from the normal font size. Subscripts and superscripts are used, for example, for dimension tolerances and other indexes.

 

Oblique Angle (SHX). Defines the font tilt angle. Any angle value is allowed, except 0, 180, 360, etc. The normal (upright) font has the tilt angle value of 90 degrees.

 

Line Width. This parameter defines the thickness of the character contour lines.

The “Oblique Angle”, “Line width” and “Fill” parameters affect only vector fonts of the SHX format.

The settings on this tab affect the size of all detailing elements of the drawing (dimensions, text, roughnesses, GD&T symbols, leader notes), whose “Font” tab settings are displayed in the square brackets, that is taken from the document parameters. The elements will not be modified whose “Font” tab settings are explicitly defined.