TABLE OF CONTENTS One of the more tedious drafting tasks is applying notes to your drawing. Anyone who has had to manually 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 enabling you to type your notes right into the same document as the corresponding drawing, but 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.
In this first section, you will add some simple labels to your Unit drawing to identify the general design elements: the bathroom, the kitchen, and the living room.
Start by setting up a drawing to which you can apply some text:
On the CD 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. Metric users should use 08a-unit-metric.dwg. After it is open, choose File Save As to save the Unit drawing to a file called Unit.dwg.
Create a layer called Notes and make it the current layer. Notes is the layer...
