From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
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Text styles - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
Text styles
- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now in our AutoCAD essential course, and what we're going to look at now is getting you started with annotating some simple AutoCAD designs. Now, you'll notice we've got a new drawing for you. It's called Annotation.DWG, and as usual, you can download that from the website to follow along with the videos in this chapter. Now, this particular drawing, the Annotation.DWG drawing, is showing a little bolting plate with three holes in it, and what we're going to do is we're going to annotate that with some text and some dimensions to make it into a simple design where we're communicating our design intent by way of providing the appropriate annotation. People need to know how big the holes are, how big the plate is, and so on. Now, the first thing you need when you're setting up annotation, especially text in AutoCAD, is you need to look at your text styles. Now, you'll notice in the layers panel, there in the home tab on the ribbon, we're…
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