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Working with text styles

Working with text styles - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Working with text styles

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- [Voiceover] We're now in another section of our AutoCAD 2017 essentials course, and we're going to look now at using text in an AutoCAD drawing. Now, you would use text to annotate your drawing and also communicate your design intent in a drawing. So we're staying in the UsingText drawing. Now what I want to show you first of all is setting up your text styles. Now, you can do this in two ways on the ribbon. You'll notice I'm in the Home tab on the ribbon right now, and if I go to the Annotation panel and click on the fly-out here, there's the text style I'm using, which is standard, and there's the Text Style icon. If I click on the Text Style icon, that allows me to go and look at all of the text styles I've currently got in the drawing and also create new ones. I'll just click on Cancel there to close it. I can also go to the Annotate tab on the ribbon, and I can go here, and you'll notice in the text I can select Standard there like so, and I can actually select the different…

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