RULER

Purpose:

To create a ruler in the current drawing.

The ruler consists of a ruler line, ticks along the line and tick labels every 5:th tick.

Instructions:

1. In the Insert menu, click Ruler.

2. The starting position of the ruler line is defined by user. By clicking Options here, it is possible to change some characteristics (height, aspect and slant) of the resulting tick labels. To remove a previously created ruler, select Edit, then Delete, then Last Entity at this stage.

3. Next, the minimum and maximum tick values are supplied by user. Only integer values are accepted.

4. Finally, the tick unit (distance between two adjacent ticks) is keyed in by user.

   The resulting ruler will start in the given position, grow horizontally to the right from the minimum to the maximum tick value. The first and every 5:th tick will be labelled according to it's value. The total length of the ruler will then be the tick distance multiplied with the difference between the maximum and the minimum tick values.

Options:

None.

Result:

A ruler will be created in the current drawing, according to User's action.