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Using text fields

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Using text fields

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- Now, we're staying in the zero zero ground FM annotate DWG file, and it may be that you're not too worried about using annotative scaling on text. If that's the case, what you want to do is come down here, and set your annotation scale here back to one to one so that all your text is sized in the model. I'm gonna zoom in on the annex again, and we're gonna use that for this particular video. I'm gonna select this piece of text here, and I'm just going to delete it. I'm gonna erase it like so. I'm then gonna go back to the annotation panel on the home tab on the ribbon. Go back in here to text styles like so. Now, we've got our room names there, model and then five millimeters high. Now, what we can do is we can change the settings of the text. There's nothing to stop us doing this. We don't have to use annotative scaling, so I'm gonna undo that like so. I'm gonna change the height there to zero like so. Now, if you change your height to zero, that means AutoCAD will always ask you…

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