Adding Text to Drawings - Mastering AutoCAD for Mac - page 280

RENAMING A TEXT STYLE OR OTHER NAMED OBJECT
If you need to rename a text style or other named object in AutoCAD, you can do so using the Rename
command. Choose Format  Rename from the menu bar or enter REN ↵ at the Command prompt
to open the Rename dialog box. In the Named Objects list box to the left, choose Text Styles. Click
the name of the style you want to change from the Items list on the right, click and click again to
change the name, and then click OK.
Exploring Text Formatting in AutoCAD
You've seen how you can set up a style and make scale adjustments. AutoCAD also offers a
wide range of text-formatting options that are typical of most word processing programs. You
can control fonts, text height, justification, line spacing, and width. You can even include special
characters such as degree symbols or stacked fractions. With these additional formatting tools,
you can make adjustments to the text style with which you started.
Adjusting the Text Height and Font
To get some firsthand experience using the text-formatting tools in AutoCAD, try the following
exercise. You'll create multiline text again, but this time you'll get to try out some of its other
features.
In this exercise, you'll see how you can adjust the size and font of text in the editor:
1. Pan your view so the kitchen is just at the top of the drawing, as shown in the first image
in Figure 9.7.
2. In the status bar, set the Annotation Scale setting back to ¼˝ = 1´-0˝ (1:100 for metric
users).
3. Click the Multiline Text icon on the Tool Sets palette, and then specify a text boundary
window, as shown in the first image in Figure 9.7.
4. In the text editor, type the following:
Living Room
14´-0˝ by 16´-5˝ [427 cm by 500 cm]
Make sure you press ↵ after Living Room, but make the rest of the text a continuous
string. As you type, the words wrap. AutoCAD uses word wrap to fit the text inside the
text boundary area.
5. Highlight the text 14´-0˝ by 16´-5˝ [427 cm by 500 cm] as you would in any word
processor.
6. In the Text Editor visor, click in the Text Height text box and enter 3 . Metric users, enter
2.34 . The highlighted text changes to a smaller size.
7. Highlight the words Living Room .