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Mastering AutoCAD® 2012 and AutoCAD LT® 2012
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Mastering AutoCAD® 2012 and AutoCAD LT® 2012

by George Omura
June 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1286 pages
37h 30m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 10

Adding Text to Drawings

One of the more tedious drafting tasks is applying notes to your drawing. AutoCAD makes this job faster by enabling you to type your notes, insert text from other sources, and copy notes that repeat throughout a drawing, and it helps you create professional-looking notes using a variety of fonts, type sizes, and type styles.

In this chapter, you'll add notes to your apartment building plan. In the process, you'll explore some of AutoCAD's text-creation and text-editing features. You'll learn how to control the size, slant, type style, and orientation of text and how to import text files. You'll start by working through some exercises that show you the process of preparing a drawing for text. You'll then add ...

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