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Setting up a metric text style

Setting up a metric text style - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Setting up a metric text style

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD Tip and Trick to get you functional, effective, and productive in the world of AutoCAD in your workplace. Now, as usual, we have a nice, shiny new drawing for you to follow along with the tip/trick, et cetera, and it's called ANNOTATION_MetricTextStyle.dwg. Now, that drawing can be downloaded from the website, as usual, for you to follow along with the video, and what you can see is we've got a floor plan, there. Got lots of text in the dimensions and things. We've got lots of walls, doors, and windows, and it is a metric drawing, I hasten to add. So, it's all in metric millimeters. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to create a new metric text style and I'm going to apply that to all of the dimensions on this particular drawing. So, before we do anything else, let's zoom in on that top left corner so that we can see some dimensions close up there. So, you've got the grids, J, I, and H, and you can see 3050, 5250, and so on, and then…

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