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Working with single line text (TEXT) and multiline text (MTEXT) in AutoCAD

Working with single line text (TEXT) and multiline text (MTEXT) in AutoCAD - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Working with single line text (TEXT) and multiline text (MTEXT) in AutoCAD

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- [Person] We're staying in our "MetalPlate_002.dwg" file, and what we're going to take a look at now is placing some text in the model tab and the layout tabs utilizing the textiles that we created in the previous video. Now, before we do anything, make sure you're on the right layer, so home tab on the ribbon, "Layers" panel, layer dropdown, and we're going to be using the "Text" layer in the model space, we'll move on to a different layer when we're working the layout tabs in a moment. Now, what I'd like you to do is zoom in on the right-hand end of the section view and the side view, so we're going to be looking here, like this, so get in nice and tight so you can snap easily and work easily with the text, now, we're going to add some labels, so I'm going to go to the "Annotation" fly-out here and just check that we're using "Labels_MODEL_15mms," that's the one we want to be using, so that's our textile setup. Now, we're going to place some single-line text. Now, I go up to the…

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