- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying
in our Metal Plate _002.dwgfile.
And what we're going to look at
in this video is creating a table style.
And we're going to look at creating a table style
so that we can have a table
of our different bolt hole types in our metal plate.
Now, before we do that,
jump to the Home tab on the ribbon, into Layer Properties
in the Layers Panel, and we need to create a new layer.
So we're going to click on the Icon here, new layer
and the new layer is very simple.
We're just going to call it tables like so.
I'm going to make it red to match our text
on our drawing and our dimensions.
And also here, make sure your line type is continuous
and it's using the default line weight as well.
Just click on either there's continuous in the line types
loaded in the drawing and Default you just click
and select Default at the top of the list there
like so and click on Okay.
I'm going to double click next
to tables here on the little sheet
of paper that makes it the current drafting layer.
And then I'm going to close the layer properties manager.
I'm clicking on the Cross.
I'm going to jump over to the annotate tab again
on the ribbon and over here to the tables panel.
And you can see the little arrow there.
When I click there, there's my table style dialogue box.
Now we're going to create a new Table Style like so.
And I'm just going to call it in this case hole types,
cause there are hole types
in our drawing and I'm going to start with standard.
It's the only one I can start
with, cause it is the default table style,
click on Continue.
Now we need to set this up.
So it works nicely in our drawing.
So we need to use this drop down here,
and we start with the title bar of the table.
So click on Title,
and then you've got three tabs, general text and borders.
Start with general, the fill color
I'm going to go with a cyan, let's say. Let's go with cyan
for now. Like cyan, you see it fills it up with a
nice cyan color.
The alignment is middle center.
In fact cyan's a bit bright.
Let's go for something like gray.
Let's go for a nice gray, pale gray work.
That's better, a little less harsh
on the eye and will also go for middle center
is the alignment, format general, type label.
Now the margins are also important.
We need to specify the margins
for the text in the title bar there.
So I'm going to go with
in the region of, let's say, I don't know, five millimeters
let's say. We don't need to make this annotative at all.
It's just going to be sitting in the model space.
So we're actually using physical millimeter dimensions here.
So that's five, tab that make that five as well.
And you will see it gives you a nice little bit
of space around the title in the table.
Go to text now.
And what I'm going to do is use my Dims_MODEL textile.
And that's the style that uses the Caliber font.
Text height, now this is important.
Make sure you pick a good text height.
I'm going to go with 10 millimeters in this case.
And the text color is going to be By Layer.
Notice it updates in the preview. Text angle,
obviously zero and we'll leave all the borders as they are.
We now need to go to the next part of the dropdown
which is the headers here, like so. So I'll click
on Header and again, start at the general tab. Fill color,
I'll go with that color 254 that I used earlier.
So there's our headers there.
Middle center, general and label is fine.
Make sure the margins are the same
or possibly slightly different, perhaps.
Let's go with three this time
and tab that and do three again and tab that.
And can you see it updates there, like so.
Then we've got the text tab again.
Text style, Dims_MODEL again. Text height,
we're going to go for six this time and the text color again,
make sure it's By Layer. Like so.
Can you see, it's kind
of all beginning to stand out nicely in the preview there.
Text angle will be zero, borders leave as is.
Last but not least.
We need to set up our data cells.
So there's data there in the dropdown General tab.
Fill color none this time.
For some reason AutoCAD always puts data cells styles,
top center. I always use middle center.
Format is general. This time
the type is data and the margins will go for three again.
So I'll tab each time with the three, like so
and then we'll go to the text. Text height 4.5 this time.
Yeah, that should work fine.
We'll leave it at 4.5. Text style Dims_MODEL
like the other ones. Text color again remember
By Layer. Text angle, zero. Borders as they are.
So there's our new table style for our whole types.
I'm going to click on Okay.
Select Hole Types in the list.
Click on Set Current and close
and you'll see that hole types up here
in the tables panel is now our current table style.
What we'll look at in the next video is how we set
up our table in the model tab in our drawing.