Controlling Text in a Drawing - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 389

Breaking Lines with the BREAK Command
The BREAK command chops a line into two lines. When you're working with text
that intersects a line, you'll usually want a gap between the lines after the break.
The BREAK command provides this option as well as others. Follow these steps:

1. Enter UNDO ↵ M ↵ to set the undo mark so you can return your drawing
to the state it is in now.

2. Select the LIVING ROOM text and use the MOVE command to move it
so that it rests on the ridgeline, as shown in Figure 8.24.

FiGuRE 8.24 The selected text overlapping the ridgeline

3. Turn off Object Snap, and start the BREAK command by selecting the
Break button found inside the extended Modify panel on the Home tab.

4. Place the pickbox on the ridgeline just to the right of the text and click.
The line ghosts, and the cursor changes to the crosshair cursor.
You just selected the line to break and picked one of the break points.

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You can also start the
BREAK command by
entering BR ↵ .

5. Put the crosshair cursor on the roofline just to the left of the text,
and pick that point.
The line is broken around the text, and the BREAK command ends.
As you can see in Figure 8.25, the text is easier to read now than it
was when the line was running through it.

6. You don't want to retain your drawing in its current state, so enter
UNDO ↵ B ↵ to revert to the undo point that you set with the Mark option.