From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 4 Annotating a Drawing

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Justifying text

Justifying text - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 4 Annotating a Drawing

Start my 1-month free trial

Justifying text

“

Believe it or not, in some ways, AutoCAD gives us more text options than most desktop publishing programs. In this lesson, we're going to explore text justification, an area where AutoCAD gives us a tremendous amount of control. Let's take a look. On screen I have an example of some text. Let's assume this text is sitting on an imaginary base line. Most desktop publishing programs give us three justification points. Left justified, center justified, and right justified. In AutoCAD, we have another baseline that runs along the top of our text objects. And this baseline also has three justification points. There's another baseline that runs through the middle of the text object. This one has three justification points as well. There's even another baseline that runs along the bottom of our text objects, and this baseline has three justification points. We even have an additional justification point called middle, that falls at the absolute middle of the text object. So as you can see…

Contents