From the course: Revit 2017 Essential Training: MEP (Metric)

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Working with text - Revit Tutorial

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Working with text

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- [Voiceover] Now, we can do stuff like add text, so, I'm going to add some text. What's nice about 2017 is we have a brand new text editor. Oh, it's been a long time coming. So I'm going to click my Text button, and for my text, I'm going to use my 2.5mm Arial. Now, what I want to do is, I want it to be a Leader. it can be a Straight Leader, or it can be an arch Two Segment Leader. I'm going to click on my Two Segment Leader, I'm going to click right here, I'm going to come down pick a point here. Now, I'm going to click on my cap locks, I'm going to say, VERIFY INSULATION. Notice that if I hold down my wheel button, I can pan in and out. If you're an AutoCAD user, you don't care about this but if you've been using Revit for a while, you could never do this. I'm going to click off of this text note, then it's dedicated to my drawing. Now if I select VERIFY INSULATION, and I click into it, this whole new editor is brand new in 2017. Awesome. I can set my justification, I can have…

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