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Adding oblique text

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I hate seeing awesome, isometric drawings labeled with text that's 2D looking and kind of seems to scabbed on as an afterthought. This just can't be. This video will have us opening up an isometric drawing that is not labeled. We'll then create an obliquing text that leans at either 30 degrees or negative 30 degrees. We'll put some text on the top, and on one of the sides. So to get started, let's jump into our Isometric drawing. Let's zoom in on the top of our cube here. And type in t for text, and hit Enter. This will add m text, or multiline text, to our drawing. I'm going to pick a window just like this and all caps, I'm going to type in top of cube. Now that I have typed that in, I'm going to go ahead and highlight the sentence I just typed. In my Text Editor, temporary tab, I'm going to click my Formatting drop down and notice that I have more choices. If we hover over this slanted zero, we'll see that it stand for oblique angle, which means we can slant the text. Basically…

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