Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Look for the Text Style drop-down list on the Annotation panel's slideout (Home
tab) or the Text panel of the Annotate tab.
2. (Optional) Use the Object Snap button on the status bar to enable or disable run-
ning object snaps.
You may or may not want to snap text to existing objects. For example, you'd want
to use a Center object snap to locate a letter or number precisely at the center of a
circle.
3. On the Home tab's Annotation panel, click the lower part of the big but-
ton labeled Text, then choose Single Line from the drop-down menu to start the
TEXT command.
Don't click the upper part of the Text button — that starts the multiline text com-
mand, MTEXT, which I cover in the next section.
If your text style is annotative and this is the first annotative object you're creating
in this drawing session, AutoCAD displays a Select Annotation Scale dialog box,
which advises you that you are indeed creating an annotative object and asks you
to set the scale at which you want the annotation to appear; click OK to continue.
AutoCAD tells you the current text style and height settings and prompts you to se-
lect a starting point for the text or to choose an option for changing the text justific-
ation or current text style first:
Current text style: “Standard” Text height: 0.2000 Annotative: No
Specify start point of text or [Justify/Style]:
If the text style is annotative, the text height displayed in the prompt is the model
space height, not the ultimate plotted text height. For example, if the text style is
created with a fixed paper text height of 0.2000, and the annotation scale is set to
1:2, the AutoCAD prompt will read
Text height: 0.4000
.
4. If you want a different justification from the default (Left), type
J
, press Enter,
and choose one of the other justification options.
Look up
create single-line text
in the online help system if you need help with the
justification options.
5. Specify the insertion point for the first text character.
You can enter the point's coordinates from the keyboard, use the mouse to click a
point on-screen, or press Enter to locate new text immediately below the most re-
cent single-line text object that you created.
AutoCAD prompts you for the text height (or the paper height if the text style is an-
notative):
Specify height <0.2000>:
6. Specify the height for the text.
