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E2004/6/1Text, Dtext, Textstyle

TEXT, DTEXT ANDTEXTSTYLE

OBJECTIVES

General Objective

: To understand and apply the concept of creating and editing text

Specific Objectives

: At the end of the unit you will be able to:



Create lines of text in a drawing using

Text

and

Dtext

.



Create and format paragraph text using

Mtext

.



Create text styles with the

Style

command.

UNIT 6

E2004/6/2Text, Dtext, Textstyle

6.0 INTRODUCTION

Annotating a drawing lets you present information that cannot be presented graphically.This information can be included as text in dimensions, notes, and titles. AutoCAD providesyou with a number of techniques that let you effectively create and place text in a drawing.Text in technical drawings is typically in the form of notes concerning informationor descriptions of the objects contained in the drawing. For example an architecturaldrawing might have writing description of rooms or spaces, special instructions for construction or notes concerning materials or furnishing. An engineering drawing maycontain in addition to the dimensions, manufacturing notes, or tables.In AutoCAD, the commands related to creating or editing text include;

Text

Places one line of text in a drawing, but the text is not visible until after pressing Enter

Dtext

Places individual lines of text in a drawing and allow you to see eachletter as it is typed

Mtext

Places text in paragraph form ( with word wrap ) within a text boundaryand allow many methods of formatting the appearance of the text.

Style

Creates text styles for use with any of the text creation commands. Youcan select from font files, specify other parameter to design theappearance of the letters, and assign a name for each style.

6.1TEXT CREATION COMMANDS

The commands for creating text are formally named

Dtext

,

Mtext

and

Text

( these are thecommands used for typing ). The Draw pull-down menu provides access to the two

INPUT 6a

E2004/6/3Text, Dtext, Textstyle

commonly used text commands, Multiline Text… (

Mtext

) and Single-Line Text (

Dtext

)(

Figure 6.1

). Only the

Mtext

command has an icon button ( by default ) near the bottom of the draw toolbar (

Figure 6.2

). The

Text

command must be typed at the

command line

.

Figure 6.1 : Getting text from Pull-down menu Figure 6.2 : Mtext toolbar

6.1.1Dtext

Dtext

( Dynamic text ) lets you insert text into an AutoCAD drawing.

Dtext

displays eachcharacter in the drawing as it is typed. You can enter multiple lines of text without exitingthe

Dtext

Command. The lines of text do not ‘wrap’.Methods for invoking the

Dtext

Command include :Pull Down-Menu

:Draw > Text > Single Line Text

Command

:Dtext

If we use the type command, the options are presented below:Command:

dtext

Justify/Style/< Start point>:

Start Point

The start point for a line of text is the left end of the baseline for the text (

Figure 6.3

).Height is the distance from the baseline to the top of upper case letters. Additional lines of Mtext Toolbar

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