

Change the Height to 25 and click Apply to complete the setup of the Text Style. Check the “Big Font” option, select hztxt.shx in the drop-down menu under the Big Font, as shown in the following picture.ĥ. If you use the default text style and enter Chinese character in the single line text place, there would be question marks, because the default text style doesn’t support big font.Ĥ.

If you want to use CAD fonts and display Chinese, you’ll have to check the Use Big Font. Pay attention to the “Use Big Font” in the above dialog box, so what is a big font? Small fonts contain English, symbol and similar fonts while big fonts include Chinese, Japanese, Korean. There are a lot of Windows fonts in the drop-down menu, when finding CAD fonts, we can enter the initial after unfolding the full list with our mouse. Select “text.shx” in the drop-down menu of Font Name under Font, as shown in the following picture. We can see that the default font is Arial, which is a Windows font, the CAD system has its own font files with their extension name *.shx. Change the name to “Engineering”, as shown in the following picture.

Click on “New” in the Text Style dialog box to create a new text style. With Text Style in CAD, designers don’t have to adjustġ.Enter ST then press Enter to open the Text Style Dialog box, as shown in the following picture,Ģ. Text Style is a text template that controls the displaying effects by modifying the text height, rotation of angle, font, etc. We can use fonts designed for CAD or directly use the fonts that Windows system provides us. To have a better display effect of the text in CAD, beginners need to learn to set up the text style.
