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Creating annotative text styles

Creating annotative text styles

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Creating annotative text styles

In this video, we will create annotative text objects that appear in different scales. Open the Architectural6 sample file in the Chapter 15 folder. Double-click in this viewport, and you'll see that the viewport scale is 3 8ths of an inch equals one foot. Double-click in this viewport, and you'll see it's scale is one inch equals one foot in the real world. So we have two different graphic scales going in this drawing. 3 8ths and one inch. Let's make a mental note of that. Let's go over to the Model tab and zoom in on this spiral stair. Let's go in to the Text Style by typing, s + t + enter, and then double-click on the Annotative style at the top of the list to set that style current. You can see it's annotative because this is checked. Over here, we also need to specify the height of that text. In this case, I want it to appear as a quarter inch high. So I'll type in 1/4, press Tab, click Apply, and Close. Now, I need to go down here and specify the annotative scale. Open this up…

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