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Properties of center marks and centerlines

Properties of center marks and centerlines - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Properties of center marks and centerlines

- [Voiceover] When you're working with your Centerlines and your Center Marks in AutoCAD 2017, what you'll find is there's a certain group of system variables allowing you to alter the appearance of the Centerlines or Center Marks as well. So what I've done, I've gone back to the 04_CenterMarksLines.dwg file, and I've removed the existing Center Marks and lines that were placed previously. What I've done is I've made sure in my layers here, that we're using the A-CENTERLINES layer, which is the layer that the Centerlines and Center Marks are going to go on. Now, the first variable controls the length of Extension Line Overshoots for Centerlines and Center Marks. So you might want your Centerlines and Center Marks to actually go over the edges of your geometry. So this variable is CENTEREXE. C-E-N-T-E-R, the American way, and then E-X-E, like that, and then Enter to finish. It says Enter new value for CENTEREXE. So that's set to 0.12 at the moment. I'm gonna change that to 5, and press…

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