Controlling Text in a Drawing - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 407

8. Move the cursor to the last polyline that you drew and, when the
Perpendicular osnap marker appears, click.
The left edge of the title block is drawn (see the top of Figure 8.43).
Press ↵ to end the PLINE , command.
9. Trim the left half of the upper horizontal pline drawn back to the pline
just drawn.
10. Offset the horizontal pline down 3 ′ -6 ″ (1065 mm), offset this new line
down 2 ′ -6 ″ (762 mm), and then offset this new line down 2 ′ (610 mm).
(See the middle of Figure 8.43.)
11. Start the PLINE command. Using Midpoint osnap, start a pline at the
midpoint of the third horizontal line down.
End the segment at the bottom of the border, taking advantage of the
running Perpendicular osnap, pressing ↵ to end the PLINE command.
12. Trim the right side of the line just above the bottom of the border,
back to the line you just drew (see the bottom of Figure 8.43).
The lines for the title block are almost done. Some of the plines might look
wider than others. The monitor distorting the picture at the current view almost
certainly causes this. By zooming in, you can assure yourself that everything is
correct.
1. Zoom into a close view of the title block. Notice that the intersection
of the outer lines in the upper-left corner doesn't seem clean.
2. Zoom into that corner using a zoom window (see the top of Figure 8.44).
The lines don't intersect in a clean corner because they are two
separate polylines. You need to join them as one.
3. Click the Edit Polyline button from the expanded Modify panel on the
Home tab, or enter PE ↵ to start the Polyline Edit ( PEDIT ) command,
and select one of the two lines.
When a pline is thicker than the pickbox, you must place the pick-
box on the edge of the polyline to select it, not over the middle of it.
4. Click Join or enter J ↵ to activate the Join option, and then select the
other pline and press ↵ .
This corrects the corner (see the bottom of Figure 8.44). Enter X ↵
or just press ↵ to end the PEDIT command.
5. Use Zoom Previous and then use Zoom with the scroll wheel to zoom
out enough to see the entire title block (see Figure 8.45).