From the course: AutoCAD: Effective Annotating
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Multiline text - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Effective Annotating
Multiline text
- [Announcer] So we're staying in our 03_UsingText.dwg file, we're going to look at the other type of text now, available to you in AutoCAD, which is multiline text or M text. Now the previous video we used the good old text command, the single line text command. And we placed the text underneath the drawing there, saying Typical Section. Now we're going to use the same text style and the same text layer. Now it may be that you want to use a separate layer for your multiline text as compared to your single line text. It's entirely up to you. Personally I just used a good old fashioned text layer in all the drawings I used to draw when I was in industry. So for example in the layers panel here, I'm using that good old text layer there and making sure it's the current drafting layer, which it is. So that text layers all set up and ready to go. Now I want to make sure that I'm using the standard text style. And again I can go to the Annotation panel on the Home tab. Go into the Text…
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