Controlling Text in a Drawing - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 405

Constructing a title Block
The title block is a box that contains general information about a drawing, such as
the name of the project, the design company, and the date of the drawing. It will
be set up in the lower-right corner of the border and will use the same special line,
the polyline , which is created when the RECTANGLE command is executed.
FiGuRE 8.41 The drawing with its border
You first used the RECTANG command in Chapter 4 for drawing the doors. At that
time, I mentioned that rectangles created with the RECTANGLE command consist of
a polyline whose four segments are grouped as one object. In step 10 of the previ-
ous section, you saw that these segments could have varying widths.
The polyline tool, the PLINE command, allows you to draw continuous straight
and curved line segments of varying widths, with all segments behaving as if they
were one object.
When you explode a polyline using the EXPLODE command, the segments lose
any width they have and become independent lines. The ability of a polyline to
have a width makes it useful in constructing title blocks. You'll use the PLINE
command to draw the various lines that make up the title block, and then you'll
fill in the text:
1. Zoom into a view of the lower third of your drawing, including the
bottom of the border. Be sure the Endpoint and Perpendicular osnaps
are running.