Chapter Eleven: 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 a drawing. ...

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