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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Line Font Display</div>
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      <p class="para_topic"> This option provides two ways to control the Line Font: Hardware and Software.  </p>
      <div class="title_division">Hardware</div>
      <p class="para_division"> The Hardware option uses the system graphics library to generate the seven standard line fonts. It does not honor user-defined line fonts. Instead, the system draws curves with fixed, system-dependent dashed patterns that remain constant even if you zoom the view. If many of the curves in your model use non-solid (dashed and/or dotted) fonts, selecting hardware line fonts can improve drawing performance and reduce memory consumption.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Software</div>
      <p class="para_division"> The Software option generates non-solid curves with the values you enter in the Dash, Space, and Symbol size fields on this dialog. It also uses user-defined line font information, if there is any. (For more information, see File&rarr;Utilities&rarr;Line Fonts). As you zoom the view, the displayed size of the dash pattern changes. This is because pattern sizes are specified in part units.</p>
      <p class="para_division">Using the settings on this dialog, you can specify the physical size of the dashes, spaces, and symbols  when the display generates. In general, the dashes, spaces, and symbols are not the same size relative to the geometry as in a plot, because the plot is usually at a different scale from the display.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Setting Line Font Values for Plotting</div>
      <p class="para_division"> For plotting, set the Space, Dash, and Symbol sizes to the values you want because the system uses them in the plot, even if you enable the Hardware option.</p>
      <p class="para_division"> To set or modify the Space, Dash, and Symbol sizes for plotting even when you plan to select the Hardware option:</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Select Preferences&rarr;Visualization. This displays the Visualization preferences dialog.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Select the Line tab.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> In the Line Font Display area, select the Software option.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Modify the values in the Dash, Space, and Symbol Size fields as you want.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> In the Line Font Display area, select the Hardware option.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Click Apply or OK.</p>
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      <div class="title_division">Customer Defaults</div>
      <p class="para_division"> The system saves Line Font Display settings in the part file. When you create a new part, the system initializes the settings according to customer defaults. </p>
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