Learning Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

1. Create a new Text Style

2. Change an existing Text Style

3. Delete a Text Style

4. Select a Point Style

5. Divide an object into specified number of segments

6. Divide an object to a specified measurement

Creating New TEXT STYLES

AutoCAD provides you with two preset Text Styles named "Standard" and "Annotative".

(Annotative will be discussed in Lesson 27)

You may want to create a new text style with a different font and effects.

The following illustrates how to create a new text style.

1. Select the TEXT STYLE command using one of the following:

   • Ribbon = Annotate tab / Text panel / ?

   • Keyboard = ST

     

2. Select the NEW button.

   

3. Type the new style name in STYLE NAME box.

   Styles names can have a maximum of 31 characters, including letters, numbers, dashes, underlines and dollar signs. You can use Upper or Lower case.

4. Select the OK button.

5. Select the FONT.

6. Enter the value of the Height.

   Note: If the value is 0, AutoCAD will always prompt you for a height.

   If you enter a number the new text style will have a fixed height and AutoCAD will not prompt you for the height.

7. Assign EFFECTS.

   

   UPSIDE-DOWN

   Each letter will be created upside-down in the order in which it was typed.

   Note: this is different from rotating text 180 degrees.

   BACKWARDS

   The letters will be created backwards as typed.

   VERTICAL

   Each letter will be inserted directly under...