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Multiline text (MTEXT) - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2017 Essential Training
Multiline text (MTEXT)
- [Voiceover] In the previous video, we looked to placing Single Line Text. So, I've stayed in the office view, in the 08_UsingText.dwg file and you can see our "Office 3 Finance" text there, so we've got two lines of single line text. They're on the Text layer, and you can see it, they've been placed and they're 350 millimeters high in the Model tab in the drawing. Now what we're going to do, we're going to look at a different type of text. It's called Multiline Text, and it's a bit more like word processor text. It's a bit more like Microsoft Word, you would use it perhaps for notes columns, for example on a drawing title block. You might also use it in the Model space, because it gives you one block of text to move around instead of two lines of text like that. It also gives you the ability to edit the text a lot more effectively, too. So, we're going to make sure we're on the right Layer first. We go to the Home tab on the ribbon, go to the Layers panel, make sure that we're on…
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