Chapter 8: Adding Text to Drawings

Chapter 8 : Adding Text to Drawings

Overview

One of the more tedious drafting tasks is applying notes to your drawing. Anyone who has had to draft a large drawing containing a lot of notes knows the true meaning of writer's cramp. AutoCAD not only makes this job go faster by allowing you to type your notes right into the same document as the corresponding drawing, it also helps you to create more professional-looking notes by using a variety of fonts, type sizes, and type styles.

In this chapter, you will add notes to your apartment building plan. In the process, you will explore some of AutoCAD's text creation and editing features. You will learn how to control the size, slant, type style, and orientation of text, and how to import text files.

Adding Text to a Drawing

In this first section, you will add some simple labels to your Unit drawing to identify the general design elements: the bathroom, kitchen, and living room.


	1.	Start AutoCAD and open the Unit file. If you haven't created the Unit file, you can use the file called 08a-unit.dwg from the companion CD-ROM. Once open, use File Save As to save the Unit drawing to a file called Unit.dwg .


	2.	Create a layer called Notes and make it the current layer. Notes is the layer on which you will keep all your text information.


	3.	Turn off the Flr-pat layer. Otherwise, the floor pattern you added...

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