Overview

• Setting up text styles

• Placing new text in the drawing

• Modifying text in a drawing

• Working with grid lines

• Managing single-line and multiline text

• Creating a table

You have many uses for text in your drawings, including titles of views, notes, and dimensions. Each of these may require a different height, orientation, and style of lettering. To control the text, you'll need to learn how to do the following:

• Determine how the text will look by setting up text styles.

• Specify where the text will be and enter it into the drawing.

• Modify the text already in your drawing.

AutoCAD offers two types of text objects: single-line and multiline. Single-line text makes a distinct object of each line of text, whether the line is one letter or many words. This type of text is useful for titles of drawings, titles of views within a drawing, room labels, and schedules. Dimensions, tables, and longer notes are done with multiline text. AutoCAD treats a whole body of multiline text as one object, whether the text consists of one letter or many paragraphs.

The two types of text share the same text styles, but each has its own command for placing text in the drawing. When you modify text, you can use the same commands for either type of text, but the commands operate differently for multiline than for single-line text. Any text used in dimensioning a process by which you indicate the sizes of various components in your drawing is handled slightly...