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drawing. A symbol instance records the location of a symbol in the drawing. While you can create many instances of a symbol in a single drawing, AutoSketch only needs to store its definition once, saving memory. See also symbol library. symbol array A series of symbols arranged in a linear, circular, or rectangular pattern. symbol basepoint The point you enter when placing a symbol. symbol library bar A bar that displays all of the symbols in the current symbol library. Holding the pointer over one of the symbols in the palette displays a pop-up window. Clicking one of the symbols makes it current. Symbol Explorer A tool for performing a wide variety of symbol-related functions, including creating and renaming symbol libraries, copying symbols between libraries and drawings, deleting symbols, and setting a current library and a current symbol. symbol library A file containing one or more symbols. Symbol libraries make it easy to share symbols across drawings. Symbol libraries use their own file format separate from the AutoSketch drawing file format. They typically have an extension of .SLB. Tangent snap A snap that allows you to specify the tangent point on an arc or circle from the current point by clicking anywhere along the arc or circle. template A drawing file in which all desired parameters such as borders, title blocks, grid spacing, units, and so on have been set. You can use templates to quickly set up a new drawing. When you use a template, you should save the new drawing under a different name to preserve the template file. terminator See line terminator. text angle In dimensioning, the orientation of the dimension label with respect to the page. There are two choices: aligned and one direction. Aligned text runs parallel to the dimension line. One direction text is parallel to the bottom of the page. text aspect The ratio of text width to height. text basepoint The point used to establish the location of a text string. The text string is rotated and justified about this point. When so specified on the Visibility page of the View Options dialog box, text points are displayed on the screen as small crosses. See also basepoint. Text Editor The window that allows multi-line text entry, cutting, copying, and pasting to the Clipboard, and merging other text files. The Text Editor is accessed by double-clicking on an existing text entity or by clicking the Editor button in the Text Input dialog box. text entity A drawing entity comprised of characters from a AutoSketch or TrueType font. text height In AutoSketch, the height of the upper case characters in a font measured in output size. tiling pattern See page tiling. tolerance AutoSketch supports two tolerance display modes: plus/minus and range. Plus/minus tolerance shows the calculated measurement followed by a negative tolerance and a positive tolerance. Range tolerance shows the lower end of the range and Glossary | 375