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Using lettering fonts in CAD drawings

Text in an AutoCAD or an IntelliCAD drawing, is created whenever you use the DTEXT command for a single line of text, or the MTEXT command for a paragraph (multi line) of text). The text toolbar shows next to the standard toolbar and the current lettering style (in this case ISO3098b a style name which matches the font being used) is also indicated.

Text

Activating the text commands

These DTEXT and MTEXT commands can either be typed at the keyboard, or activated by clicking on toolbar buttons (icons). The actual command is 'hidden' behind the toolbar button and is fed to the AutoCAD or IntelliCAD command line whenever you 'pick' one of them.
 
Tip: The buttons are usually found on the standard toolbar, but may be on other toolbars depending on your version/release of AutoCAD or IntelliCAD. [There have been 20+ versions of AutoCAD and 7 releases of IntelliCAD since they were first released].

 

Tip  We like to use the DT and MT shortcuts to start these from the keyboard rather than use the toolbar icon.
 

To place text, you simply start the command by whichever means you prefer, click into the drawing area where you want the text to appear and start typing the required text.

 Tip We prefer to use single line text (created with the DTEXT command) when building technical drawings. If we need several lines of text one under the other, we commonly set up a grid of appropriate size (and snap settings) in the zone where we are placing text. In this way, our text lines up. Drawings with text misaligned, especially where the text is lined up in a column, look rather amateurish.

 UNDER DEVELOPMENT - September 2009



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