Controlling Text in a Drawing - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 406

2. Click the Polyline icon on the Home tab ➢ Draw panel.
The Specify start point: prompt appears in the command window.
3. Click the Polar Tracking and Object Snap Tracking buttons on the
status bar to turn them on.
Hold the cursor over the lower-left corner of the inner border, and
when the vertical tracking point appears, move the cursor directly
above that point and enter 10 ′↵ ( 3050 ↵ ).
This starts a polyline on the left side of the border 10 ′ (3050 mm)
above the lower-left corner.
4. Notice the bottom two lines of text in the command window. The
upper one tells you the width set for the polyline, currently 0 ′ -0 ″
(0). The lower one says Specify next point or [Arc/Halfwidth/
Length/Undo/Width]: , listing the options for the PLINE command
with the default option being to pick a second point. This is the time
to set the line width.
5. Enter W ↵ , and then enter 2 ↵↵ ( 50 ↵↵ ).
This sets the starting and ending widths of polyline segments to 2 ″
(50 mm). The original PLINE command prompt returns.
6. Hold the crosshair cursor on the right side of the border. When the
Perpendicular osnap marker appears on the border line, click. Then
press ↵ to terminate the command.
The first polyline segment is drawn (see Figure 8.42). The 2 ″ (50 mm)
width setting will stay until you change it and will be saved with the
drawing file.
FiGuRE 8.42 Drawing the first polyline for the title bar
7. Restart the PLINE command. Pause the cursor over the bottom-right
corner of the border to set the temporary track point, move it directly
to the left, and enter 16 ′↵ ( 4875 ↵ ) to start the polyline 16 ′ (4875 mm)
from the corner.