One for notes, one for tables, one for the table header, two or three for the title block – I think you get the picture. Once you get into more complex drawings, you will need more than one textstyle (if they aren’t in the template). Click on the in the dialog to read more about it. If you set a height here, AutoCAD will not be able to scale if for uses such as dimensioning, in other words, it is fixed at the height you set.Īnnotative text is a new feature in AutoCAD 2008. IMPORTANT: Do NOT change the Height in this dialog box unless you really know why you are doing it. 8 – this allows you to fit text in narrower spaces at an 80% width. Optionally you can set the width factor to a. This is a common, clean font that AutoCAD can display quickly on the screen.

This style will be used for all text and dimensioning in the next assignments. Select the New… Button and type in a name for your new text style.Ĭlick on the Font Name edit box and select “romans.shx” as your new text style. Use your pull-down menus Format > Text, or type ST, and this dialog box appears.

It is easy to load in a new style for all of your text. Here is an example of the default TXT font compared to the ‘standard’ ROMANS font. Unfortunately, it is a very basic and ‘ugly’ font. To format text in AutoCAD, you have to create a new text style for each different font and style of text.īy default in the acad.dwt file, AutoCAD loads the txt.shx font because it is simple to display on the screen. For example, the font that is used is defined by the Text Style. Occasionally you may need to create a new text style (definition of the way the text will look).

Most template drawings will have your text styles defined. You may have already done this in the first level of tutorials, but this lesson will go into more detail and explore more options. Below are the common commands for working with text.Ĭreates formatable multiline, paragraph textĮdits and formats text – edits attributesĬhecks for spelling errors in Text, Attributes and XrefsĬreating text in AutoCAD is easy. Like most things in AutoCAD, there is more than one way to do it.

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