From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training

Creating text styles

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Creating text styles

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We will create a text style in this video. Text styles control the appearance of text objects. Open the architectural sample file in the chapter nine folder and then type Style. S+T is enough for auto complete. There are two text styles that ship by default: standard and annotative. I'll talk more about annotative objects in chapter 15. Let's create a new text style by clicking this button. Let's give this style the name technical. Okay. The default font is Arial and this looks fine in a word processor, but it's less appropriate in a technical drawing where you want to have text appear with maximum clarity. I'm going to select a different font from this list. The fonts that you see here might be different on your computer because these are TrueType fonts that are installed in the operating system, and if you have Microsoft Office, it might install additional fonts. I'm going to scroll down and, as I do, notice some of the icons are different. This has a compass and an "A". This is an AutoCAD symbol, so this is a AutoCAD font. It's composed of lines that aren't filled and these fonts go way back in AutoCAD's history to when "Pen Plotters" were popular, but they still are quite useful in creating simple fonts. So I'm going to scroll down all the way to simplex, if I can find it in this list. S-I-M, there it is. Simplex.shx. It's a very simple font composed of single line representations. Avoid setting the height. You can set a height here, but then you're locked in. And all of the text that you make with this style, has to be that height. I strongly recommend that you leave this at zero. That gives you flexibility later, when you create text objects. It can be any size. I'd like to make this point a little narrower than usual. To do that I'll set a width factor less than one. I'll type .9. that will just squish the font horizontally a little bit, and this is helpful for getting text to fit in tight areas in technical drawings. Finally, click Apply and Close. We've created our first text style. In the next video, we'll start creating single line text objects.

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