So under text we add single line text.
Single line text is as it says.
Remember when we type this and we press enter and it did another line.
That's because it's creating single lines each time.
The other option is multi line text.
Now if I do multi line text, you sort of just left clicking a start point.
It's going to ask me to draw a kind of a window and this is where I want to type my paragraph.
Okay.
So if I now type the same.
I'm going to press enter.
You can probably guess what's going to happen.
Okay.
But I can keep pressing enter as much as I want until again, I just click out of it or escape.
And now if I click on this, it's going to select the whole thing.
You can see it's highlighted the whole thing because multi-line text as the name would suggest.
It's creating a multi line.
It's creating a kind of paragraph and the options here.
So we've got kind of a same sort of options.
We've got style, we've got annotative and style in single line and multi-line text.
You do have text styles.
When it says text style, it basically means font, so you can load in fonts.
Okay.
Just like you can in other word processing software if you want to change fonts, but they call them
styles in AutoCAD and you'll notice we only have standard here, a bit like the line types.
AutoCAD doesn't.
When you open a new join, it doesn't come preloaded with all the styles in the background because of
space and things, most of them you'd never need.
So it will allow you to load them in.
And we'll look at that in a minute.
Okay.
But Annotative, again, that's that's an advanced topic.
Justification just the same as before.
Except now what it's doing, it's kind of doing it within that window you made rather than around the
point and direction.
Okay.
So you can change it now.
What we're doing here is we're changing things like you get more control because it's multi-line things
like line spacing.
But what we're doing here, we're changing things in the properties.
Most people don't tend to do that with text because if you double click it, you'll see it brings up
your text window and it brings up this whole toolbar here, which is most of it's going to be familiar
to anyone who's used any kind of word processing application.
Okay, You've got your normal justification tools here, bullets and numbering.
Okay.
You've got bold.
You've got italics.
You can change the height.
Okay.
You can put in symbols.
So if you wanted to do like a squared sign or cubed sign, you can just go to where you want it and
you can have text squared.
Don't ask me what it means, but you can have text squared and things like find and replace.
Find and replace is great.
Because it will allow you to if I wanted to.
Let's.
So I've got the word texture I can go find and replace.
I want to replace the word text with.
End text because this is about and you can match the case.
You can or you can just replace all okay to replaced.
So now it's replaced each instance of a word text with text.
And if you've got a large paragraph, some, some drawings are just text.
If it's part of a series, you might have one drawing, which is all the notes and it's just a whole
load of text that is a great option.
Um, so these are general word processing tools in terms of the style of font.
You can see now we've got in this window, we can see what's available to us.
So we can go down and look at these various fonts here.
And if whatever's highlighted, you'll see it change.
It is very much like a word processing.
I don't want to go too much in depth because I'm going to guess that.
Anyone learning code has already used a basic word processor.
I miss things like bullets.
It's just going to be simple.
It's just going to be it's just going to be self-explanatory to you.
So the main point of this lesson was to show you the difference between single line text and M text.
Me personally, I prefer M text.
One thing I do like about it, if you were to just click it once, you'll see you get grips.
Okay, so if this was, let's say we had a column in the title block or something, you put this text,
you wanted it in there.
Okay, But it's outside the boundary.
All you need to do is grab that grip and you can set these to your boundaries.
And it will automatically kind of word wrap and justify the text to fit in.
Okay.
And if you put it small, it'll make another column there.
So now it's split into two columns.
So it gives you a lot of power in terms of fitting your text in.
And that's why I like it.
Sometimes you do open a drawing and it's got single line text and you might wish it was text, so you
had that same kind of control.
What you can do if there is an option, you'll see at the top we have.
Under these bars here.
There's one called Express Tools.
Now, Express Tools is kind of.
It's tools that don't necessarily fit into the main toolbar.
It's little quick commands, maybe things that have been added in later.
But under Express Tools, there's one called Convert to Text, and if you click on that, then that
will convert your text to text.
And now you get these kind of.
Grips that you can move around.
So yeah, that's the difference between text and text and how to add text to your drawings.
A lot of the time you when you add text, you want an arrow on there.
Okay.
And you can do that.
With these leaders.
An arrow in AutoCAD is called a leader.
Okay.
So if you see one of these other options, just pull down that menu until it says leader.
And when you select leader, you can click and Ofo is turned on at the moment, so you can press F8
to turn that off.
And I'm going to draw an object, actually.
So let's let's say this is an object.
It's a table.
We want a piece of text coming off with an arrow that says table.
Okay, So we'll go to leader.
And we can have our snap on.
This is set to nearest and it is going to click on it.
Or we might just click anywhere inside.
We drag it out like this.
Okay?
And now it's going to ask us to put in some text.
So I'm going to write table.
Okay.
Now that looks absolutely terrible because there's a few things wrong with it.
The arrow head is tiny, the text is tiny.
So the leader is actually it comes under dimension and it's set by your dimension style, which we're
going to look at in the dimension chapter and.
So in terms of changing this, I'll leave that for the Dimension chapter, but that is how you do it.
That is how you do a leader.
So that's how you do text with an arrow.
Okay.
And again, we'll in the next next dimension chapter, we'll look at that table so you can import,
you can create tables with columns and things.
Again, that's one that's all pretty self-explanatory.
It's just one to have a play around with.
Um, the main thing with this is, is creating text and the difference between multi lines and single
line text.
That's the main point of this lesson.
And as you can see, text is quite easy.
Anyone who's used to using it in any other software can can pick that up fairly easy.
My recommendation is to just stick with multi line text and just use it using these commands like a
word processor.
Okay.
So let's look at dimensions in the next chapter.