Okay.
So in this lesson, we're going to look at text.
Text is an important part of most drawings.
It's no good having lines and things if you can't say what they are.
So let's look at the different types of text and how it's used.
I'm just going to click on this tab here to start a start a blank drawing.
Okay.
And this is just going to load up with the defaults.
So there's a big icon here saying text.
So you've probably guessed that is how you create text.
And it's under this annotation tab, which has a few things, some a bit advanced for this course,
but we'll have a look at Dimensions in a different lesson that deserves a lesson all of its own.
We're going to concentrate on this tab here and there is an arrow.
So you like a lot of things you probably find in in AutoCAD, various options and different ways of
achieving things.
So let's look at the most basic first, which is single line text.
And I've selected that I get my crosshairs and it's asking for the start point of text.
Remember, if you don't get these options and these boxes, it's F12 to turn them on and off.
So it's just asking where do you want to put your text?
And I'm just going to left click anywhere.
It's now asking me to specify the height.
And again, this is going to be in units.
So if you're if you're drawing things in millimeters or feet, it doesn't matter.
You should you should be able to see what size you want your text relative to the object.
So if you've got if you're drawing, say, internal walls and you know, they're 100mm.
Fake or, you know, they're say, five inches thick.
Looking at your drawing, you should be able to work out how many of those units you want your text
height to be, for instance.
But I'm just going to put in 2.5in here.
We haven't got any other geometry in here.
It's just to show you the text.
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
angle.
So sometimes you might want your text to be going up vertically alongside something.
Generally you want it to be at the angle of zero.
Okay.
You do have the ability to use the cursor to specify it.
For instance, if you were putting it along a line, you can also turn on ortho with F8.
To get you 90 degrees, but it's just the default is zero.
So I'm going to just press enter to accept the default and then I will.
Start typing.
Okay.
And so I've finished.
I've typed a little sentence there and I'm going to press enter
and.
Type another line.
Okay.
And I can keep typing lines until I just click out of it.
The usual way is just click out of it or press escape to end the command.
Okay, so I've done that now and I typed out two lines of text there.
If I now click on it, you'll see it is two individual lines.
So even though I was typing this and I pressed return like you would in something like word and you'd
create a paragraph, it has each line is a separate object.
Okay.
And if I go up here, you can see we've got text, we've got our normal properties, things like layer
color, that kind of thing.
We've got a few text specific properties for content, so we could change what it says here, or you
can double click it and actually type it in.
Okay.
We've got the style.
So text style, annotative or standard.
Now, Annotative is a bit advanced for this course, so we'll just stick that to standard for now.
Okay.
Again, you can select that there.
Justification left.
So that's.
It's based on the point you click to select where you want your text to start, which was this point.
And just like in word processing, you can have that to fit.
So that point is the center.
You can have it.
So it's the left, which is what you will usually do.
And you've got Top Love.
So you've got a few justification points here.
If you were connecting Matt to an object, for instance, you might want it to always be moving around
that object in its justification.
Okay.
Hi.
So you could change the height here if you wanted to make that line bigger.
Let's say rotation again.
You can change the rotation here.
Okay wit factor.
Now, the wit factor is kind of how wide that text is.
And this is one of those things.
It's probably easier to show you if I put that up to five.
Okay, you'll see it.
It just goes a lot wider, basically.
Don't can't actually remember a time where I've needed to change that.
The main reason is I don't tend to use line text much and we'll see why.
So oblique in that's basically italics.
You can do that and then you've got your coordinate information and that's line text.
So it's not that powerful in terms of editing.
Years ago, when we were concerned about file sizes and things like that, a lot of these AutoCAD options
go back to them days where you might use line text because it takes up less file space.
Now we don't really need to bother about them and some of these things are still in there.
Most people I know prefer to use M text and I'll show you M text next.