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Using annotative text styles

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Using annotative text styles

- [Voiceover] We're staying in the 14_layouts_titleblock.dwg file. What we're going to look at now is annotative text. Annotative text allows you to utilize text with your view port scales. So the whole idea is your placing a piece of text that is annotative into the model space and it'll scale to the right height in the scale view port in the paper space in the Layout tab. So, I'm in the Model tab of the 14_layouts_titleblock.dwg file, which I'm hoping you've saved as you follow along with the videos. I'm just going to pan down a little bit, like so. Now, the reason I'm panning down is what I want to do now is place some text across the top that just says General Arrangement. Now, I'm going to go to the annotation panel on the Home tab on the ribbon. And I'm going to go here and create a new annotative text style because I want the height of this text to be a particular height in the view port, in the GA layout tab. So I'm going to create a new type of text style. So what I do is I…

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