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Create and modify tables

Create and modify tables

- [Instructor] We're staying in our Metal Plate_REV2.dwg file And what we're going to take a look at now is creating and modifying tables. Now there's already a table in this particular drawing. All we need to do is double click on the wheel to zoom extents, and there's the table right there. So zoom in on the table and pan up a little bit so it's kind of center and at the top of your screen like that. Now you'll notice some weird bits and pieces in here. These are field data and what they're doing is they're collecting data from the outer polyline over here and so on. We don't need to worry about this particular table because what I want to do is show you how to create and modify a table, a new table. So what we're going to do, we're going to go to the Layer dropdown here and select text as our current drafting layer. Make sure it's text. And then we're going to go to the Annotation panel here. Click on the fly out.…

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