Introduction to AutoCAD® 2017: A Modern Perspective

Chapter 11. Adding Text

Chapter Objectives

• Control the appearance of text using text styles and fonts

• Understand the difference between TrueType fonts and AutoCAD SHX fonts

• Create and edit multiline text

• Create and automate horizontal, diagonal, and tolerance type stacked text

• Create and edit single-line text

• Insert intelligent text fields

• Find and replace text in a drawing

• Check text spelling for a whole drawing

Introduction

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and while the lines, arcs, and circles on a drawing can convey a great deal of design information, at the end of the day you will need to annotate your drawings in order to completely communicate your design.

annotate: To add text, notes, and dimensions to ...