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Enclosing text inside objects with the Enclose in Object command

Enclosing text inside objects with the Enclose in Object command - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Enclosing text inside objects with the Enclose in Object command

- [Instructor] There are often occasions where you want to enclose text inside an object or a drawing to highlight it. Now one of my favorite AutoCAD express tools is enclose in object. And we're going to have a look at that now as our AutoCAD tip and trick. So we've got a new drawing for you, it's called enclose in object.dwg. Yes I know, very imaginatively named. But it gets across what I'm trying to say. So we've got three bits of single-line text in the drawing, which you can download from the library as usual to follow along with the tips and tricks video. Those three lines of text are just single-line text on layer zero, using the standard text style. No bells or whistles, just three lines of text justified to the left, you can see that there. What we're going to do, we're going to enclose them in objects. Now what'll happen is each line of text will be enclosed in an object, because they're each a piece of single-line text. And I've done that deliberately to show you some of…

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