Controlling Text in a Drawing - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 388

FiGuRE 8.22 Choosing the Synchronize Multiple-Scale Positions option
from the contextual menu
FiGuRE 8.23 Location of the 3 ⁄ 16 ″ = 1 ′ -0 ″ LIVING ROOM text after its
location is synchronized
Even with the versatility annotative text provides in the placement of text, occa-
sionally the free space in a drawing will be so limited that a line and a piece of text
will coincide. A common solution to this situation is to break the line where the
text overlaps. To demonstrate how you might solve this type of issue in your own
drawings, in the next section we're going to force a situation where you'll need to
erase part of a line where text intersects.