From the course: Learning CATIA v5
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- [Instructor] In The pervious video, I added dimensions to my part. Now here I'm going to add text. So I'm going to go down to the text toolbar, pull it out. Now that I have the text toolbar pulled out, what I want to do is place text without a leader in this view. Now you'll notice that I have a red boundary on the lower view or the front view, as you can see in the tree, this is indicating the work view. Because I'm placing text with Auto Leader, it doesn't know that it wants to be associated with as view, it's going to by default go into the work view. So in order for me to get this text with Auto Leader into this view I have to double-click on it. I can do that here or I can do that in the tree. Now that it's my active view, when I place my text, select my text icon, select where I want the text to go, I can always move it afterwards, and now you'll notice that the text is being applied to that view. Once I type in what I want, if I have a second line, I need to go and hit Shift…
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