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So under text we add single line text.

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Single line text is as it says.

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Remember when we type this and we press enter and it did another line.

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That's because it's creating single lines each time.

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The other option is multi line text.

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Now if I do multi line text, you sort of just left clicking a start point.

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It's going to ask me to draw a kind of a window and this is where I want to type my paragraph.

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Okay.

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So if I now type the same.

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I'm going to press enter.

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You can probably guess what's going to happen.

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Okay.

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But I can keep pressing enter as much as I want until again, I just click out of it or escape.

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And now if I click on this, it's going to select the whole thing.

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You can see it's highlighted the whole thing because multi-line text as the name would suggest.

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It's creating a multi line.

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It's creating a kind of paragraph and the options here.

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So we've got kind of a same sort of options.

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We've got style, we've got annotative and style in single line and multi-line text.

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You do have text styles.

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When it says text style, it basically means font, so you can load in fonts.

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Okay.

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Just like you can in other word processing software if you want to change fonts, but they call them

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styles in AutoCAD and you'll notice we only have standard here, a bit like the line types.

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AutoCAD doesn't.

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When you open a new join, it doesn't come preloaded with all the styles in the background because of

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space and things, most of them you'd never need.

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So it will allow you to load them in.

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And we'll look at that in a minute.

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Okay.

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But Annotative, again, that's that's an advanced topic.

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Justification just the same as before.

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Except now what it's doing, it's kind of doing it within that window you made rather than around the

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point and direction.

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Okay.

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So you can change it now.

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What we're doing here is we're changing things like you get more control because it's multi-line things

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like line spacing.

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But what we're doing here, we're changing things in the properties.

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Most people don't tend to do that with text because if you double click it, you'll see it brings up

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your text window and it brings up this whole toolbar here, which is most of it's going to be familiar

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to anyone who's used any kind of word processing application.

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Okay, You've got your normal justification tools here, bullets and numbering.

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Okay.

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You've got bold.

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You've got italics.

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You can change the height.

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Okay.

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You can put in symbols.

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So if you wanted to do like a squared sign or cubed sign, you can just go to where you want it and

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you can have text squared.

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Don't ask me what it means, but you can have text squared and things like find and replace.

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Find and replace is great.

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Because it will allow you to if I wanted to.

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Let's.

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So I've got the word texture I can go find and replace.

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I want to replace the word text with.

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End text because this is about and you can match the case.

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You can or you can just replace all okay to replaced.

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So now it's replaced each instance of a word text with text.

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And if you've got a large paragraph, some, some drawings are just text.

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If it's part of a series, you might have one drawing, which is all the notes and it's just a whole

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load of text that is a great option.

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Um, so these are general word processing tools in terms of the style of font.

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You can see now we've got in this window, we can see what's available to us.

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So we can go down and look at these various fonts here.

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And if whatever's highlighted, you'll see it change.

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It is very much like a word processing.

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I don't want to go too much in depth because I'm going to guess that.

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Anyone learning code has already used a basic word processor.

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I miss things like bullets.

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It's just going to be simple.

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It's just going to be it's just going to be self-explanatory to you.

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So the main point of this lesson was to show you the difference between single line text and M text.

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Me personally, I prefer M text.

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One thing I do like about it, if you were to just click it once, you'll see you get grips.

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Okay, so if this was, let's say we had a column in the title block or something, you put this text,

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you wanted it in there.

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Okay, But it's outside the boundary.

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All you need to do is grab that grip and you can set these to your boundaries.

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And it will automatically kind of word wrap and justify the text to fit in.

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Okay.

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And if you put it small, it'll make another column there.

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So now it's split into two columns.

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So it gives you a lot of power in terms of fitting your text in.

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And that's why I like it.

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Sometimes you do open a drawing and it's got single line text and you might wish it was text, so you

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had that same kind of control.

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What you can do if there is an option, you'll see at the top we have.

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Under these bars here.

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There's one called Express Tools.

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Now, Express Tools is kind of.

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It's tools that don't necessarily fit into the main toolbar.

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It's little quick commands, maybe things that have been added in later.

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But under Express Tools, there's one called Convert to Text, and if you click on that, then that

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will convert your text to text.

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And now you get these kind of.

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Grips that you can move around.

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So yeah, that's the difference between text and text and how to add text to your drawings.

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A lot of the time you when you add text, you want an arrow on there.

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Okay.

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And you can do that.

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With these leaders.

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An arrow in AutoCAD is called a leader.

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Okay.

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So if you see one of these other options, just pull down that menu until it says leader.

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And when you select leader, you can click and Ofo is turned on at the moment, so you can press F8

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to turn that off.

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And I'm going to draw an object, actually.

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So let's let's say this is an object.

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It's a table.

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We want a piece of text coming off with an arrow that says table.

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Okay, So we'll go to leader.

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And we can have our snap on.

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This is set to nearest and it is going to click on it.

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Or we might just click anywhere inside.

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We drag it out like this.

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Okay?

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And now it's going to ask us to put in some text.

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So I'm going to write table.

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Okay.

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Now that looks absolutely terrible because there's a few things wrong with it.

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The arrow head is tiny, the text is tiny.

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So the leader is actually it comes under dimension and it's set by your dimension style, which we're

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going to look at in the dimension chapter and.

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So in terms of changing this, I'll leave that for the Dimension chapter, but that is how you do it.

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That is how you do a leader.

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So that's how you do text with an arrow.

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Okay.

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And again, we'll in the next next dimension chapter, we'll look at that table so you can import,

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you can create tables with columns and things.

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Again, that's one that's all pretty self-explanatory.

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It's just one to have a play around with.

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Um, the main thing with this is, is creating text and the difference between multi lines and single

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line text.

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That's the main point of this lesson.

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And as you can see, text is quite easy.

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Anyone who's used to using it in any other software can can pick that up fairly easy.

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My recommendation is to just stick with multi line text and just use it using these commands like a

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word processor.

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Okay.

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So let's look at dimensions in the next chapter.