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Using text symbols

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Using text symbols

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- [Voiceover] In the previous video, we changed two things with our space text in our FM drawing. So, we're staying in the 00_GND_FM_ANNOTATE drawing, and you'll remember in the last video, we set our bathroom text and the area of the space to basically multi-line text. So we've got two, it's a multi-line text there now, and also we changed the text style from annotative to non-annotative, because at the end of the day these are just labels. They don't have to be perfectly scaled in viewports, it's entirely up to you if you want to utilize that particular method. So, what we're gonna look at now is utilizing the multi-line text to insert some symbols into our data for each of our spaces in our FM drawing. Now, the 01 is fine, that's a block, and that's got an attribute and we're gonna look at that later when we start looking at space tables in the drawing itself. The bathroom text is multi-line text and that is, in essence, the space name, the name of the space represented by the…

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