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Okay.

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So in this lesson, we're going to look at text.

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Text is an important part of most drawings.

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It's no good having lines and things if you can't say what they are.

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So let's look at the different types of text and how it's used.

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I'm just going to click on this tab here to start a start a blank drawing.

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Okay.

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And this is just going to load up with the defaults.

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So there's a big icon here saying text.

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So you've probably guessed that is how you create text.

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And it's under this annotation tab, which has a few things, some a bit advanced for this course,

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but we'll have a look at Dimensions in a different lesson that deserves a lesson all of its own.

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We're going to concentrate on this tab here and there is an arrow.

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So you like a lot of things you probably find in in AutoCAD, various options and different ways of

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achieving things.

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So let's look at the most basic first, which is single line text.

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And I've selected that I get my crosshairs and it's asking for the start point of text.

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Remember, if you don't get these options and these boxes, it's F12 to turn them on and off.

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So it's just asking where do you want to put your text?

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And I'm just going to left click anywhere.

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It's now asking me to specify the height.

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And again, this is going to be in units.

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So if you're if you're drawing things in millimeters or feet, it doesn't matter.

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You should you should be able to see what size you want your text relative to the object.

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So if you've got if you're drawing, say, internal walls and you know, they're 100mm.

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Fake or, you know, they're say, five inches thick.

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Looking at your drawing, you should be able to work out how many of those units you want your text

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height to be, for instance.

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But I'm just going to put in 2.5in here.

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We haven't got any other geometry in here.

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It's just to show you the text.

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So I'm going to put 2.5 and press enter and now it'll ask for the rotation and that's asking for an

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angle.

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So sometimes you might want your text to be going up vertically alongside something.

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Generally you want it to be at the angle of zero.

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Okay.

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You do have the ability to use the cursor to specify it.

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For instance, if you were putting it along a line, you can also turn on ortho with F8.

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To get you 90 degrees, but it's just the default is zero.

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So I'm going to just press enter to accept the default and then I will.

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Start typing.

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Okay.

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And so I've finished.

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I've typed a little sentence there and I'm going to press enter

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and.

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Type another line.

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Okay.

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And I can keep typing lines until I just click out of it.

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The usual way is just click out of it or press escape to end the command.

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Okay, so I've done that now and I typed out two lines of text there.

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If I now click on it, you'll see it is two individual lines.

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So even though I was typing this and I pressed return like you would in something like word and you'd

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create a paragraph, it has each line is a separate object.

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Okay.

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And if I go up here, you can see we've got text, we've got our normal properties, things like layer

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color, that kind of thing.

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We've got a few text specific properties for content, so we could change what it says here, or you

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can double click it and actually type it in.

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Okay.

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We've got the style.

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So text style, annotative or standard.

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Now, Annotative is a bit advanced for this course, so we'll just stick that to standard for now.

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Okay.

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Again, you can select that there.

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Justification left.

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So that's.

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It's based on the point you click to select where you want your text to start, which was this point.

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And just like in word processing, you can have that to fit.

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So that point is the center.

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You can have it.

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So it's the left, which is what you will usually do.

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And you've got Top Love.

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So you've got a few justification points here.

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If you were connecting Matt to an object, for instance, you might want it to always be moving around

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that object in its justification.

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Okay.

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Hi.

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So you could change the height here if you wanted to make that line bigger.

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Let's say rotation again.

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You can change the rotation here.

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Okay wit factor.

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Now, the wit factor is kind of how wide that text is.

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And this is one of those things.

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It's probably easier to show you if I put that up to five.

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Okay, you'll see it.

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It just goes a lot wider, basically.

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Don't can't actually remember a time where I've needed to change that.

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The main reason is I don't tend to use line text much and we'll see why.

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So oblique in that's basically italics.

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You can do that and then you've got your coordinate information and that's line text.

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So it's not that powerful in terms of editing.

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Years ago, when we were concerned about file sizes and things like that, a lot of these AutoCAD options

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go back to them days where you might use line text because it takes up less file space.

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Now we don't really need to bother about them and some of these things are still in there.

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Most people I know prefer to use M text and I'll show you M text next.