Controlling Text in a Drawing - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 371

Similarly, when using decimal units, the scale factor is derived by dividing the
second number in the ratio by the first—for example, 1:50 has a scale factor of
50 and 1:60 has a scale factor of 60.

Defining a text Style for View titles

Now that you have a good idea of the required text height, it's time to define a
new text style. Each new AutoCAD .dwg file comes with two predefined text styles:
Standard and Annotative. They reflect the two types of text styles you can cre-
ate inside AutoCAD. You'll learn more about Annotative text styles in the next
exercise, so for now we'll only focus on Standard or static text styles as they're
sometimes called.
To create Standard text styles, you must calculate the correct Model Space
Text Height setting so that your text will plot at the correct height when your
drawing is plotted at scale. For this exercise, you'll create a text style for text
that will be plotted at a scale of 3 ⁄ 16 ″ = 1 ′ . To get started with your first text style,
follow these steps:

1. Expand the Text Style drop-down list found on the Home tab ➢
Annotation panel, and choose Manage Text Style (see Figure 8.2) or
enter ST ↵ to start the STYLE command.

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You can also start
the STYLE command
by opening the menu
bar and choosing
Format ➢ text Style.

FiGuRE 8.2 Starting the STYLE command

After you start the STYLE command, the Text Style dialog box shown
in Figure 8.3 opens.

2. In the Styles area of the Text Styles dialog box (see Figure 8.3), you'll
see the default Standard text style as well as the Annotative text style.