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Create and modify annotations such as text, multileader, and dimensions

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Create and modify annotations such as text, multileader, and dimensions

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- [Instructor] Once again we're in our Metal Plate_REV2.dwg file and we're going to be taking a look in this video about how we create and modify annotations such as text, multileaders and dimensions. Now, for the purposes of this video, we're going to zoom in on a particular area of the drawing in the model space and it's the section view and the elevation view here with some multileaders, some text and some dimensions. So a little bit of zooming and panning. Get it nicely centered on your screen, like so. Now, we're looking at creating and modifying annotations such as text first. Now, you'll notice we've got some text labels available here. So these are on the text layer, so go to the layer dropdown on the layers panel on the home tab on the ribbon. Just make sure that text is the current drafting layer, so that you're putting the objects on the correct layer when you create them. Now, what we're going to do here is…

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