Page Setup dialog box
plot styles, 367
shaded views, 355
Page Setup Manager dialog box
plot style tables, 362
printer settings, 358–359, 359
Paint Bucket tools, 86
palette view, DesignCenter, 252, 253
Pan Realtime tool, 23
panning and Pan command, 23–24
accuracy of, 26
locking viewport views from, 347–348
panoramic views, 169
PANTONE color option, 208
paper
printable area of, 27
size, 353
for printing, 342–343, 343
selecting, 353
user-defined, 353
Paper option, 341, 341
paper space
dimensions in, 295
layers in, 341, 341
viewports in, 341
Paper Space option, 211, 211
paragraphs, indenting, 268
parallel lines
construction, 106–107
drawing, 82–83, 82
Parallel option, 62
Parallel Projection tool, 173
parallel projections, 173, 173
Parallelism tolerance symbol, 309
parentheses () in formulas, 284
Paste Special dialog box, 273, 286, 286
Path option, 178
paths, extruding along, 178–179, 179
patterns
gradients, 98–99
hatch. See hatch patterns
Pe command, 80, 147
Pedit command, 80, 147–148
Pen # option, 365
Perpendicular option, 62
Perpendicularity tolerance symbol, 309
Perspective Projection tool, 173, 173
perspective projections, parallel projections from, 173, 173
perspective view, 4
PHANTOM linetypes, 224
Pick Both Offsets option, 139
Pick Column Offset option, 139
Pick Point option, 234
Pick Row Offset option, 139
pl command, 80
Place Text Manually option, 319
Planar mapping style, 190, 191
Planar Mapping tool, 189
plines. See polylines and Polyline option
Plot And Publish tab, 354, 362
Plot dialog box, 351
paper size and orientation, 342–344, 343
printer settings, 359, 359
shaded views, 355
Plot In Background option, 356
Plot Object Lineweights option, 356
Plot Offset (Origin Set To Printable Area) group, 354
Plot or Page Setup dialog box, 360–361, 361
Plot Paperspace Last option, 356
Plot Stamp dialog box, 357, 357
Plot Stamp On option, 357
Plot Style Control list, 367, 368
Plot Style option, 367
Plot Style property, 123
Plot Style Table Editor dialog box, 363–366, 364
Plot Style Table list, 343, 343
Plot Style Table Settings dialog box, 362
plot styles and plot style tables, 230, 359–360, 360
assigning
to layers, 368, 368–369
to objects, 366–367, 367
color vs. named, 362
creating, 362–363
editing and using, 363–366, 364, 366
named from color, 369
predefined, 360–361, 361
Plot Upside-Down option, 358
Plot With Plot Styles option, 356
Plotter Calibration option, 353
Plotter Configuration Editor dialog box, 351–353, 352
plus signs (+) in formulas, 284
Point Filters option, 62
point lights, 191
point of view, 168–173, 169–173
Point Selection cursor, 51
Point Selection mode, 38
Point Style dialog box, 102
points
construction lines through, 104
coordinates of, 34, 329
as markers, 102
marking, 102, 102
tracking, 67–68
pol command, 100
Polar Angle settings, 52
Polar Angle Measurement setting, 52
Polar Array option, 137, 137
polar coordinates, 28, 35, 35, 38–39, 39
polar tracking, 38, 51
adjustable triangles with, 49–50
behavior of, 50–52, 50
with osnaps, 67
for relative coordinates, 41
Polar Tracking tab, 50–52, 50
polar tracking Vector, 28
Polygon tool, 100
polygons, 72, 73
area, 326, 326
drawing, 100–101, 101
Polyline command, 80
polyline splines, 73, 73
Polyline tool, 73
polylines and Polyline option, 72, 73
for Chamfer, 131
for curves, 80–81, 80–81
editing, 147–149
exploding, 147
extruding, 174–176, 174–176
for Fillet, 129
for outlines, 327–328, 327
revolving, 185, 185
portrait orientation, 343, 358
Ports tab, 352
Position tolerance symbol, 309
PostScript fonts, 264
Precision option
angles, 302
dimensions, 320–321, 323
drawing units, 46
predefined hatch patterns, 87–88, 88
predefined plot styles, 360–361, 361
Prefix option, 320, 322
prefixes for dimensions, 310, 320, 322
preview icons, 253
Preview panel, 254
Previous option
Modify menu, 127
Pedit, 149
Zoom, 24
Primary Units tab
architectural drawings, 318
dimensions, 310, 320, 320
primitives, 152, 152
printable area, 27, 354
printing, 339
3D views, 355–356
hidden lines and shading, 348
locking layers from, 212
paper size and orientation, 342–343, 343
plot options, 356–357
plot styles. See plot styles and plot style tables
positioning, 354
printer settings, 351–353
saving settings, 358–359, 359
scaling, 345, 345, 354–355
setting up, 340, 340
viewports for, 341–342, 345–350, 346–350
views for, 353–354
Procedures tab, 29
Profile tolerance symbol, 309
Project option, 134
Prompts, 51
properties
cameras, 172, 172–173
filtering layers by, 214–216, 215–216
Properties palette, 7, 7, 122–124, 122–123
blocks, 238, 238
cameras, 173, 173–174
cell text, 281–282, 282
layers, 205–206, 205
line weights, 230, 230
Properties Settings dialog box, 99
Properties toolbar, 17
Purge command, 236