Print Order and Layers Overview.....................................................................................................................69
Understanding Print Order in Composer ........................................................................................................70
Outputting by layers to GSPPlot .......................................................................................................................72
Importing layers...................................................................................................................................................72
Chapter 7: Selecting the Elements of the Design ...........................................................................77
Selecting elements of the design........................................................................................................................77
Book Three: Creating the Basic Design Text and Shapes..............................................................83
Chapter 8: All About Text......................................................................................................................85
Entering text .........................................................................................................................................................85
Editing text..........................................................................................................................................................103
Using Change Case to alter the case of text....................................................................................................104
Spacing characters, lines and columns............................................................................................................104
Resetting the line spacing .................................................................................................................................107
Setting line length and column height............................................................................................................107
Arranging the text in the design......................................................................................................................109
Converting text to shapes .................................................................................................................................110
Working with Spell Check................................................................................................................................111
Chapter 9: Creating Shapes............................................................................................................... 119
Techniques for drawing on the work surface ................................................................................................119
Rectangles and squares .....................................................................................................................................119
Circles and ellipses ............................................................................................................................................120
Decorative borders.............................................................................................................................................120
Creating a surround shape ...............................................................................................................................122
Multi-sided shapes (stars and polygons)........................................................................................................124
Adding GerberCUT Targets.............................................................................................................................127
Freehand drawing..............................................................................................................................................129
Chapter 10: Sizing, Slanting, Flipping, and Rotating ................................................................... 133
Sizing ...................................................................................................................................................................133
Slanting................................................................................................................................................................135
Flipping or mirroring ........................................................................................................................................136
Rotating...............................................................................................................................................................137
Chapter 11: Grouping, Moving, Justifying, and Spacing............................................................. 141
Grouping and ungrouping ...............................................................................................................................141
Locking or Unlocking Objects..........................................................................................................................142
Moving objects on the work surface................................................................................................................143
Justifying.............................................................................................................................................................144
Adding and removing guidelines ...................................................................................................................145
Spacing ................................................................................................................................................................146
Chapter 12: Measuring and Dimensioning.................................................................................... 149
Measuring distance and angles........................................................................................................................149
Measuring the distance around objects ..........................................................................................................152
Determining the area of objects .......................................................................................................................152
Dimensioning Summary...................................................................................................................................153
Understanding Dimensioning..........................................................................................................................156
Dimensioning .....................................................................................................................................................157
The Dimensions Toolbar...................................................................................................................................158
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