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Single-line text (TEXT) and multiline text (MTEXT)

Single-line text (TEXT) and multiline text (MTEXT) - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Single-line text (TEXT) and multiline text (MTEXT)

- We're staying in our annotation.dwg file, and we're going to take a look now at single line text and multi-line text. And what we're going to do is make sure that we utilize one of the text styles that we created in the previous video and the text layer. So the text layer at the top now should be our current drafting layer. If it's not click on the little text area here or the down arrow, come down to text, click on the word text that'll make it your current drafting layer. Now we're going to zoom in on this area here and we're going to place a couple of bits of text, very, very simple bits of text using the text layer but we're going to play some single line text and some multi-line text. So see this little area here, put your crosshair over it, zoom in a bit, maybe pan upwards, maybe roll back one click so that you can see what you're doing. Now before we place any texts, we must make sure that we're using the appropriate…

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