- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now
and we're going to take a look now
at how we can annotate our designs in AutoCAD.
Now, when I say annotate,
I mean add things like text labels,
dimensions, notes columns on your title book, et cetera.
Now, in order to do that,
you need to generate some text styles.
Now, in order to get to the text style dialog box,
you can go two ways:
you can go from the home tab.
In the annotation panel here,
click on the flyout and you can get
to text styles there using the A with the paintbrush icon.
And there's our existing text styles in the drawing.
If I click on cancel,
I can also go from the annotate tab here
and there's a little arrow there on the text panel.
See that little arrow?
There's one there for text style,
dimension style, et cetera.
There's the text style one there,
and that'll take you to exactly the same dialog box.
Now my personal preference is,
I often work from the home tab
and use the annotation flyer on here
purely because I'm often drawing and modifying
at the same time.
So I'm going to hit text style there
and open up the text style dialog box.
Now we're going to create a couple of new text styles.
The first one is going to be for a notes column
in our title block in this drawing.
So I'm going to click on new
and I have a particular naming philosophy
for my text styles.
So I'm going to call it notes.
So everybody knows it's for a notes column, for example,
and then I'm going to put an underscore
and then I'm going to put the space
where this particular text style will be used,
which is in the layout tabs.
And then I'm going to put another underscore
and I'm going to put 3.5 millimeters.
That's how high it's going to be.
Now, if you were working in an imperial drawing,
obviously those units would be in something like inches
or fractions of inches.
I'm going to click on okay,
make sure I select that particular text style.
Now, because I was in the annotative text style,
this is the current text style originally,
it's adopted the annotative setting.
I don't want it to be annotative.
I'm going to uncheck that.
So I'm going to pick a font
and I'm going to hit C key on the keyboard when I hit the list.
And there's Calibri right at the top.
I'm going to use a regular font style,
and I'm using a regular font style
because you see the little TT there,
it's a TrueType font.
So I can have things like Regular, Bold, Bold Italic.
I want Regular.
And I'm going to set a height of surprise, surprise, 3.5.
Now the reason I'm setting a height there
is then whenever I use this text style,
AutoCAD won't ask me for a text height,
it'll just ask me for the rotation of the text
because it knows the text type because it's in the style.
Now I'm not going to worry about any effects
but there are some cool ones like upside down,
note the preview there, bottom left,
or I could go backwards like so.
There's some very cool effects there.
Investigate those 'cause they could be useful for you.
So that's our notes layout 3.5 all set up.
I'm going to click on apply.
I'm then going to click on new again,
and I'm going to create another text style.
This is going to be called labels.
Make sure you spell it right.
My typing is never good.
And then we want model.
So this one will be used in the model tab
and then I'm going to put another underscore
and I'm going to put 15 millimeters this time.
So I click on okay, there's my labels model 15 millimeters.
It's using Calibri and Regular already because it's adopted
that from the last text style I was setting out
which is the notes layout one.
I'll change the height there to 15
so that AutoCAD doesn't ask me for a text height
while I'm using this particular style.
And that's pretty much it,
unless you obviously want it to be upside down or backwards.
I'm not going to worry
about either of those for obvious reasons.
So again, I'll apply that now
and then I can close the text style dialog box.
So I want to click on close now and click
on the annotation flyout here.
I'm going to pin it open for you.
And then what we've got here
is all our different text styles.
So there they are there.
There's the labels, there's the notes.
We've also got title layout 10 millimeters,
which is already in our existing title blocks
in this drawing, and the dims model text style is used
for the dimension style in this particular drawing.
So as you can see, there's various text styles
and things going on.
And what we'll do is we'll start using one
of those text styles now.
So I'm going to go for labels, model 15 millimeters.
So I'll click there and then we'll start having a look
at placing some text in our drawings in the next video.
So I'll just unpin the annotation panel
that goes back into the ribbon
and we'll jump into the next video
where we look at single line text and multiline text.