Chapter 2
Working with Nongraphical Objects
Nongraphical objects, also known as named objects, are objects that are stored in a drawing but that are not visually part of your design in model space or paper space. They do affect the appearance of the linework and annotations visible in a drawing, control which objects are displayed, organize plot settings for outputting a layout, and much more. The nongraphical objects you might have to work with in a drawing include the following:
- Blocks
- Detail view styles
- Dimension styles
- Layers
- Layouts
- Linetypes
- Materials
- Multileader styles
- Multiline styles
- Plot styles
- Render presets
- Section view styles
- Table styles
- Text styles
- User coordinate systems (UCSs)
- Visual styles
- Viewports
- Views
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