![]() Make sure you're on the home tab on the ribbon and in the layers panel, just click on the flyout there and make sure you've current drafting layer, set to text as shown on the screen.Annotation is a component that we must have in a drawing. So we've got training all set up as our current text style now. I can also do that in the Home tab on the ribbon and go to the annotation flyout here, and I can select it there and I can also select training as the current text style that way too. I can select training and make it the current text style. If I click on the down arrow, there's all the styles. ![]() Now you'll notice, in the Annotate tab on the ribbon now in the text panel, there's my training text style there. ![]() So that's now my new text style and what I'm going to do just to make sure that it is the current text style, I'm gonna click on Set Current and then Close. I'll leave that at zero and I'll apply that. The oblique angle, change that to 45, and you can see it kinda sweeps the text across using that angle of 45 degrees. If I set that back to one, and press tab again, it goes back to normal. Width factor, I can alter that to say naught point five and press tab and you'll see it gets a bit squished together. We can have it backwards as well if we want to. We can turn the text upside down, you'll see in the preview there. Now we can set some effects in our text styles if we wish. You can't have two to three millimeter high text when your objects are 500, 600 millimeters big, wide, long, et cetera. So even the text has to be a size that you can see. Now the reason I'm setting that height, you might think, quite high, is because we're working in the model tab, in model space. Now, we're not using Annotative text so it's just gonna be a fixed height which is going to be 200. We do use TrueType fonts in AutoCAD now which come in from Microsoft Windows and a lot of the fonts have things like bold, bold italic, italic, and regular. If you want a different font, just click on the pull down and find the one that you need. Now the default fonts at the moment is Arial which is absolutely fine for our needs. Click on OK and select it in the list there on the left. You'll notice you've got an Annotative text style and a Standard text style as the default styles in any AutoCAD drawing. Quick and easy and obviously it stands out from any other text style name there. And thew New Text Style, we're just going to call it Training, like so. So in the Text Style dialog box we click on New, like so. Now what we're going to do, we're gonna create a new text style. ![]() Or you can go to the Annotate tab on the ribbon and in the text panel here, click on this little arrow here, and that will also open up the Text Style dialog box. That will open up your Text Style dialog box. Click on the flyout and click on this little A with a paintbrush. You can go from the home tab, go to the Annotation panel here. Now you can access your text styles in two ways. Now first thing we need to do if we're going to place some text in the drawing is set up what is known as a text style. Now, as you can see, we've got a simple geometric shape there with three circles and what we're going to look at is adding some text and some dimensions to this particular little piece of geometry in the drawing. It's Annotation.dwg and you can download that from the library to follow along with these videos in the chapter. You can see it there on the screen and the name of it is at the top of the screen. We're starting another chapter now in our AutoCAD LT essential training course and we're going to be getting you started now with annotating a really simple design.
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