The Properties Window

The Object Properties dialog box, or the Properties window, is a dialog box designed to easily modify the properties of objects. With this dialog box, you can modify objects by object type on a per-object basis.

This is accomplished in two ways: by overall drawing or by selectioning objects from the drawing.

Modifying the Properties of the Overall Drawing

The Properties command is activated by selecting the Tools pull-down menu, Properties option, which opens the Properties dialog box, as shown in Figure 3.11.

Figure 3.11. The Properties dialog box accesses the general properties of the drawing when a selection set is not found.

These drawing properties can be modified:

  • General—Deals with overall properties of the ...

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