- [Instructor] We're staying in our
New Metal Plate.dwg file.
And I'm going to zoom in now on the section view
and the side view at the top here on the screen
I'm in the model tab,
I'm just zooming in so that I can see what's going on
in the section view.
And also the side view here.
Now we're going to be working
with some annotative text in this particular video.
So in the model tab
we need to make sure that our annotation scale
is set to represent our viewport scale.
So if I jump to the sections and elevations layout tab
and just click on the edge of the viewport there.
Down here in the status bar
it tells me the scale of my viewport, which is 1:2.
I'll hit Esc to deselect the viewport
jump back into the model tab.
And we need to make sure that our annotation scale here
is also set to 1:2.
It is already so we didn't need to panic
but it's always worth doing that quick check
just to make sure.
Now we're going to place some annotative text.
Now make sure you're on your text layer obviously
'cause you want to place your text on the text layer
in the layer drop down like that.
And then we need to make sure that we are using
our annotative text style.
Now in this drawing, I've already got one created for you.
Just go to the home tab on the ribbon,
click on the annotation flyout,
and click on the A with the paint brush like so.
And you'll see we have a Labels MODEL Anno
so it's annotative.
This is clever though, because it's annotative here.
The paper text type will always be five millimeters.
It's a metric millimeters drawing in this case.
Obviously if you were working in different units
that will be a different paper text type
for obvious reasons.
So we'll select our style here in the list,
set it as the current style
and then close.
So any text that we place, will be annotative.
So it'll be like this section view text here.
When I hover over it
it's got the little annotative symbol there
next to the cross hair.
So all I'm going to do here now
is I'm going to put some single line text in
next to our side view.
So I'm going to go up to the annotation panel again
click on the text flyout and select single line text
and then I'm going to right click and justify the text.
Now I want the middle left justification.
This one here, middle left.
And the reason I want that
is I want it to the left but in the middle
for one of the grips on the text
you'll see why in a moment.
And then I'm going to specify
the middle left point of the text.
I'm just going to pop it anywhere about here and click.
And then the rotation angle will be zero
notice it's not asking for any height
because the height is defined in the text.
press Enter to accept the zero
which is obviously horizontal left to right.
And there's our little cursor.
So now I just type side view
'cause it's our side view that we want the text label for.
Press Enter once, press Enter twice.
Now it's not quite lined up
like the section view text is.
Hover over it though
you see it's annotative, which is great.
If I click on it though,
can you see I've now got two grips.
I'll zoom in a bit
and I can click on this grip to move the text
hover over this midpoint here
and then just drag a little bit over here to the left.
Now what I could also do is line it in exactly
if I wanted to
with an insertion snap up here as well
as you can see if I hover there
just hover over that point there and start coming down.
And can you see the object snap tracking all kicks in
with the polar tracking, left click,
and that now lines up with the section view text
and the midpoint on the side view.
Hit Esc a couple of times to deselect
zoom out a little and pan little.
And you can that that now sits nicely,
all lined up in the drawing.
So our annotative text is now placed.
It's using the right annotation scale.
It's located where we want it to be in the drawing.
It's on the right layer.
It's using the annotative text style as well.