1. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 Creating Text Adding and Formatting Text in AutoCAD Understanding Text and Scale Using Styles to Organize Your Fonts Adding Single Words with the Single-Line Text Object Adding Tables to Your Drawing

2. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 Placing text in a drawing can be accomplished by first clickingthe Multiline Text tool in the Draw toolbar...... then placing the text boundary in the drawing area.

3. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 The Text formatting toolbar appears offering common word processing tools. A text panel appears below the toolbar where you text appears as you type.

4. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 The text formatting toolbar offers a full range of options.

5. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 The text panel offers tab and indent markers similar to other word processing programs.

6. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 Line spacing can also be controlled, though the settings are not where you might expect. After adding the text, select it, right click and choose Properties. And then, in the Properties palette, set the line spacing in the LIne space factor option.

7. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 AutoCAD also offers a spelling checker. Choose Tools > Spelling. AutoCAD will check all of the text in the drawing. When it encounters an unfamiliar spelling, the Check Spelling dialog box opens and displays the word in question.

8. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 A find and replace feature can be found by choosing Edit > Find. This opens the Find and Replace dialog box.

9. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 A note about text scale: While adding text in the model tab, you will have to adjust the text size to make it readable for the scale of the drawing. Drawing ScaleScale FactorText Height for 1/8” High Printed Text 1/16" = 1'-0"19224.0" 1/8" = 1'-0"9612.0" 1/4" = 1'-0"486.0" 1/2" = 1'-0"243.0" 3/4" = 1'-0"162.0" 1" = 1'-0"121.5" 1 1/2" = 1'-0"81.0" 3" = 1'-0"40.5"

10. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 If you have a set of text settings that you use frequently, you can create text styles. Text styles let you store font, and text size settings under a name you provide. Choose Format > Text Style to open the Text Style dialog box. Here you can create your text styles.

11. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 Once a text style has been created, you can recall the style in the Text Formatting toolbar.

12. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 Tables are a common feature in technical drawings. AutoCAD offers a set of tools to make table creation a simple task.

13. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 Choose Draw > Table or click the Table tool in the Draw toolbar to open the Insert Table dialog box.

14. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 Here you can specify the row and column settings for you table. You don’t have to be precise at this point as you can always add rows and columns later.

15. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 Once you’ve entered your table settings in the Insert Table dialog box, click OK. The dialog box closes and you’ see the table appear at the cursor. Click a location to place the table in the drawing. The Text Formatting toolbar appears along with the first highlighted cell.

16. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 Through grip editing and right click menu options, you can change the formatting of the cells of the table.

17. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 Right click in a cell or a set of cells and select Properties to make formatting changes through the Properties palette.

18. Just Enough AutoCAD Chapter 9 In true spreadsheet fashion, you can add formulas to cells. In this picture, C2 contains the formula =A2+B2.