Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
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In this video, we’ll take a look at creating annotation on the front view in this drawing.
Annotation can be used to communicate measurements, call out features, and provide information
about your design. Text and dimensions are types of annotation.
You control the appearance of annotation using styles.
From the Format menu, I’ll select Text Style. I’ll select the user-defined text style,
Titles, from the Styles list, which contains both user-defined and the default text styles.
Now when I create text objects, they’ll be assigned the Title text style.
Now from the Format menu, I’ll select Dimension Style and select Main as the current dimension
style. After defining which styles to use for text
and dimensions, I’m ready to annotate my drawing. In the Layers palette, I’ll set
the Text layer current. The MTEXT command is used to create multiline
text. MTEXT prompts you to specify two points in the drawing to determine the width of the
multiline text object. I can use the Text Editor visor to specify text formatting, or
accept the default formatting and start typing in the in-place editor. I’ll click Save
after I finish adding my text. I’ll return to the Layers palette and set
the Dimension layer current. You can create different types of dimensions,
such as linear, radial, or angular. One way to dimension objects is to select
a Dimension command, press Enter, and select the object you want to dimension. This is
an efficient way to dimension lines or polyline segments.
If I want more control over which points are used to create the dimension, I can use object
snaps to specify start and end points in the drawing.
To dimension this arc, I’ll select Radius. Next I’ll select the arc and click here
to place the dimension. Adding text and dimensions to your drawing
finalizes your design.