Single line text TEXT and multi line text MTEXT - Annotate Simple Designs
[Narrator] In the previous video, we set up our training text style and we're still in the annotation.dwg file. What we want to do now is place some text in the drawing using our text style. So, in the home tab on the ribbon, just check in the layers panel that you are using the text layer. If you're not, just select text there and make sure that text is the current drafting layer. Now, you can create text in a number of different ways. I can do it from the annotate tab and select here either multiline text or single-line text or I can go to the home tab on the ribbon and select text or multiline text, single-line text here in the annotation panel on the home tab on the ribbon. So there's ways and means of getting to it quickly and easily. Now, we're going to place single-line text first so I'm going to go the home tab and in the annotation panel, click on the fly-out here. Now before I do that, quickly check in the annotation fly-out that training is your current text style. If it isn't, click on the fly-out arrow and select training here, like that. Then, click on the fly-out here and select single-line text. It asks for start point of the text so I'm going to start down here, roughly about there and click once. Then it will be prompt me for the height of the text. I'm going to say 50 units in this case and press Enter. Now, the rotation angle of the text will be zero, which goes to the right, horizontally. So just press Enter to confirm the default zero and you should see a little flashing cursor up here. Now, this is a bolting plate so I'm going to type in some text: Bolting Plate. Like that. Press Enter once. It takes me to the next line of single-line text. So there's the next line. PLAN like that, 'cause it's a plan view so I might put VIEW in there, PLAN VIEW, like that to explain that it's a plan view. Now, this is single-line text so I press Enter again, prompts me for another line. If I don't want anther line, just press Enter with no text on the line and it comes out of the text commands, the single-line text command. Now, you see that that is one object and that is one object. So each line of text with single-line text is an individual AutoCAD object. If you select it, you can see that it's got one grip there and can be moved. If I double click on it, you'll see that I can edit the text in place, like so. So that's single-line text, placed in your AutoCAD drawing. Just pan across a little bit now so that the bolting plate and the single-line text are over to the left. We're going to place some notes over here on the right-hand side, making sure that we're still using our text layer, making sure that we're still using our training text style. Go to the text drop-down here and select multiline text this time. Now, you'll notice there's a little "abc" on your crosshair. That is a preview of the size of your multiline text. Multiline text, you specify an area where the text is going to go. So I'm going to click here and just drag an area out like that and click again, like so. Soon as you do that, you'll get this editor with a little ruler up here and you'll notice that your text editor tab, your contextual tab, appears on the ribbon. Now the good thing is, it's remembered that the single-line text that you placed was 50 high. You'll notice over here, in style, that it's picked up on that and the 50 is there. You'll also notice that the current text style is training, which is great. Now, multi-line text is a bit like using a word processor inside AutoCAD. So I'm now going to type notes, because this is where my notes are going to go, and you'll notice that nothing appears. Make sure that you click in the editor a couple of times and then start typing because sometimes you can click away from it and the editor's still there but you're not typing in the editor 'cause you haven't made it current so just make sure that you click in the editor before you start typing. So there's notes and colon. Press Enter now and this time it drops you another line down in the area where you're placing your multi-line text. Now, what you might do here is you might want some numbered notes so in the text editor tab, I can go into the paragraph panel, select bullets and numbering and select numbered and there's my number one. So we might say, All dims in millimeters and then full stop, press Enter, goes to the next number down, just like it would in Microsoft Word. So then you might also say there that it's material: STEEL, perhaps, because it's a bolting plate, like that. So there's material: STEEL as well. You might put another full stop in there, just to be grammatically correct. Now, I'm going to highlight the word "notes". I'm going to make that bold by clicking on the "bold" button and I'm going to click on the "u" and underline it as well. When I click away from that text now, it places it in the drawing. I can hover over it, highlight it, double-click on it. It opens up the editor again...