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Adding text

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- [Instructor] I want to start adding some text. The first thing I want to do is, I want to go down to level one. I'm going to zoom in on my stairs, and maybe we'll put some text on these. Now, I want to click on the Text button right here. The text type is 3/32 inch Arial, but I'm going to go ahead and click on Edit Type right here. I'm going to keep Opaque as my background. My leader arrowhead, I'm going to click the dropdown here, and I'm going to go Arrow Filled 15 Degrees. And I'm just going to make my width factor 0.8. And I'm going to click OK. Now what I'm going to do is, instead of blank text, I want to leader it in, so I'm going to click on the Leader button right here. And it just so happens, my company's standards goes to the top right. So I'm going to click on Leader at Top Right. I'm going to pick a point here, pick a point here, and I'm going to shoulder it in and pick a point right about here. Now, we have somewhat of an actual editor. So I'm going to type into here…

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