- [Instructor] We're staying
in our metal plate 002.DWG file, and in the previous video
we looked at setting up some text styles.
So before we start placing any single-line text
or multi-line text in our drawings,
we just need to make sure
that we're using the appropriate text style.
Now, we did set this a up in the previous video,
but if we click on the flyout here
on the annotation panel on the home tab on the ribbon,
you can see that we're using labels model 15 millimeters.
If you click there,
you can select any individual text style in the drawing.
We want labels model 15 millimeters.
We created that in the previous video.
On your layer drop down on the layers panel,
make sure you're using the text layer.
Now, we're going to zoom in to the side of the section view
and the side view, and we're going to place a bit of text here,
and here, just to say section view, side view,
really quick and easy stuff.
So as I said, I tend to work
from the home tab on the ribbon.
In the annotation panel here, if I click
on the little arrow underneath text,
I've got multi-line text and single-line text.
Select single-line text.
Come into the drawing area, and then you want to right-click,
and just check your justification settings,
so select justify on the shortcut menu.
And what we want is our text to be justified
from the left hand side.
So there's left.
We've also got center, right, align, middle, fit.
TL is top left, TC top center, TR top right, middle left,
middle center, middle right, bottom left,
bottom center, bottom right.
We're going to go all the way back up to the top to left,
and then we've got the start point of the text.
Now, I'm just going to pick a point
roughly in line with the base there like that.
It doesn't have to be perfect.
We can mess around with the justifications
and object snaps in a moment.
So there's my left click point there,
and as you can see, when I move around,
it's prompting me only me for the rotation angle
of the text, because it knows the height
of the text because of the text style.
So we're going to accept zero for the rotation angle,
which is obviously from left to right horizontal.
Just press enter to accept the zero,
and there's our little cursor.
So this is going to be the section view,
so you just type section view like that.
Press enter once, press enter twice,
and there's our little piece of single-line text.
Now, the lovely thing about single-line text is
it's easily copied, and easily editable.
So what I could do here,
if I wanted to line this up exactly,
I could select the text, click on the grip there,
and pop it on that end point like that,
then click on the grip again,
and just drag using my polar tracking sort of horizontally
to the right a little bit there, and click there.
I now know that that lines in.
The bottom of the text lines in with the bottom of the view.
I'm going to hit escape now to deselect that.
Now, what we could do is we could go all the way
through the single-line text command again.
Why do that, when you can copy?
Just select it, right-click, copy selection.
Here's the trick, though.
If I use that endpoint there as my base point,
and come down to here like that, and click there,
I know it all lines up, press enter.
It's now all lined up down here,
so everything has the same spacing.
I then just double-click on this piece of text
that I've just copied, click in here.
There's my cursor.
Using the arrow keys and the backspace key,
I just go back, and that's my side view like that.
Make sure you get the cursor back to the end
after the W, and enter once, enter twice, job done.
So there's my two bits of text,
my labels for my section view and my side view.
What about our plan view, though?
Do we want a bit of text underneath there?
Well, yeah, let's do that.
Let's take a bit of text here.
Let's click on the side view one,
right-click, copy selection.
Just pick a point anywhere on the text,
doesn't matter where,
and then we'll just take it down here,
click there, and enter to finish.
Going to zoom in now on the side view bit of text
that we need to rename.
So double-click on it first, and just type in plan view.
Just type in the whole thing new like that,
plan view, enter once, enter twice.
Now here's a clever a trick, though.
If I select that bit of text, you can see
it's still justified to the left with the blue grip.
If I right-click, and go to properties,
on the properties palette now,
I can alter the justification of my text.
Justify is left at the moment.
If I click there, and what I'll do,
I'll go four middle left center right,
or what about top center?
That sounds promising.
Let's go with top center, shall we?
And now you can see we've got a little grip top center.
So I can click there, take that grip
up to the midpoint snap along here.
There it is, and then click on the grip again,
and just drag it down, using the polar tracking,
and I know it's directly centered underneath the plan view.
Close the properties pallet, hit escape a couple of times.
If we just double-click on the wheel to zoom extents,
you can see we've got some nice texts there now,
obviously describing each of the views in our model space.
Let's jump now to the plan view layout tab.
If I click there, you can see there's our plan view
in a very simple title block.
What we need is a bit of notes text
on this particular title block,
so we're going to go to the layer dropdown now,
and I'm going to go to title text.
I always put my title text on my title blocks
on a different layer to my regular text, just a habit,
but it allows me to distinguish between the two.
So we're going to place some multi-line text now
in the layout tab, so we make sure
that we are using the right text style.
Annotation flyout, like before, and we click
on our little flyout here for our text styles,
and you want this one here, notes layout 3.5 millimeters.
That's the one we created earlier.
Now, we've got the text style in place.
We've got the layer in place.
We now go to the little text flyout here,
and select multi-line text.
And I'm going to click just above the view port there,
click there, and just drag it out,
and pass the view port to about there, and click.
So you'll see, we've now got a little sort
of like text area where I can type in text.
You might want to zoom in and get a bit closer.
The other thing that's happened is we've got a text editor
up on the ribbon.
Look at our text editor tab.
There's loads of stuff we can use.
We've got at things like bullets and numbering,
line spacing, justification, bold, italic, underline.
Isn't it great?
Multi-line text behaves a bit like Microsoft Word.
So I'm just going to type some simple notes in now.
before you start typing, though,
click in the text editing box, the gray box,
and that's the same for model tab and layout tabs,
because then, when I start typing,
AutoCAD knows to put it in the box.
So there's notes, type it in, press enter.
I go up to bullets and numbering now, and I select numbered.
Does an indent, puts the number one in there,
and I'm just going to put all dimensions
in millimeters for this particular drawing, like so,
and then I press enter
after I've put the full stop, like so.
Punctuation, really important, and then we'll put as well,
do not scale from this drawing.
You should never scale from a drawing,
'cause you just don't know
whether it's at the appropriate scale or not.
You should always check with the master plan
of the project, always.
I'm going to highlight the word notes there,
literally just drag my mouse over it.
I'll make that bold, and I'll underline it
from the formatting panel
in the text editor tab like that.
I'll put some underlining in there as well.
I've made italic too, you'll notice.
I thought that italic was underlining for some reason.
I don't know why, but they're all there.
I'll take the italics off, actually.
It looks better.
So let's leave notes with a colon in bold, underlined.
Now, you can click on close text editor here,
if you want to on the ribbon,
or just click away from the text,
and there's our text nicely set up in our layout tab.
And the good thing is I can select that,
I can right-click, I can copy selection.
In fact, what I'll do, the base point there I'll use is
that corner there on the title block,
and what I'll do is I'll jump down here like so.
Can I jump to the other layout?
No I can't.
That's a shame, isn't it?
How do I copy that text to my other layout?
Well, let's just use the windows clipboard, easy, right?
Hit escape a couple of times, select the text,
right-click, go to clipboard,
and we'll copy it with a base point.
That base point can be the corner
of our title block like that.
So that's now copied to the windows clipboard.
Hit escape a couple of times.
I'll just double-click on the wheel to zoom extents.
Looks nice all in place, just where we need it.
I go to sections and elevations here,
and what I can do now is I can just right-click,
and go to clipboard, and I'll paste,
and can you see our base point is there?
Just come up to that end point, click.
There's our text in our other layout tab as well,
quick and easy, using the windows clipboard.
Let's jump back to the model tab now,
and we'll start thinking
about other types of annotation styles
and things as we move into the next video.