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Glossary of Terms

Glossary is usually defined as an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge. This knowledge base glossary provides a collection of knowledge base documents that define many technical terms. These terms are arranged alphabetically, but you can quickly jump to a specific term by selecting its first letter from the index of the knowledge base glossary below.

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7 Glossary Terms Found.
layer
A property of any drawing object. Usually objects are organized onto different layers for organazational purposes and ease of drawing, viewing and editing. Layers often can be named and can have default colors or other properties associated with them. Vectorworks Layers have the added ability to have associated properties of scale, view, and projection. These added properties of Vectorworks layers are similar in function to AutoCAD paperspace.
leader
A line with an arrowhead and attatched text pointing at another object.
leader line
The line portion of a leader connecting the shoulder to an arrowhead.
line
A CAD object defined by two endpoints.
line type
A property of any line, circle, curve, or arc. Line type describes a repeating pattern of lines and spaces. Lines may be solid, dashed, alternate, etc. The additional property of line type scale determines how often in a given distance a pattern of lines and spaces repeats. Scale may or may not be affected by the scale of the drawing view.
line width
A property of any line, circle, curve, or arc. Line width describes how thick a line or other object appears on the the screen or on a printout. Different CAD programs use different schemes for acheiving line width.
locus
A drawing object with a single reference point and no physical dimension.