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Using text symbols

Using text symbols - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using text symbols

- [Voiceover] Up until now, in our facilities management drawing, we've used single line text. Now, the other type of text that you have available to you is multiline text, or MTEXT. And you can create exactly the same effect for the 9.7 square meters that you can see using multiline text instead. Now the nice thing is, because I've already put some values into my single line text, that piece of single line text that says 9.7 square meters. I know that that is 200 millimeters high in the Model tab. Good thing is, MTEXT will pick up on those previous settings and put the next bit of MTEXT in at that height. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to show you a really neat trick that allows you to utilize your ASCII symbols in Windows. So things like the squared symbol. So instead of putting 9.7 sq.m to represent square meters, you could put 97 m squared instead for square meters. Let me show you how that works. So the layer will remain the same. We're still on the areas layer. So that…

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