2012

Table Of Contents

Create Annotative Text (page 553)

Use Dimension Styles (page 630)

Create Annotative Dimensions and Tolerances (page 554)

Work with Leader Styles (page 599)

Create Annotative Leaders and Multileaders (page 555)

Create Annotative Text

Use annotative text for notes and labels in your drawing. You create annotative

text by using an annotative text style, which sets the height of the text on

the paper.

Create Annotative Text

The current annotation scale automatically determines the display size of the

text in model space or paper space viewports.

For example, you want text to display at a height of 3/16" on the paper, so

you can define a text style to have a paper height of 3/16". When you add

text to a viewport that has a scale of 1/2"=1'0", the current annotation scale,

which is set to the same scale as the viewport’s, automatically scales the text

to display appropriately at 4.5".

You can also change existing non-annotative text to annotative by changing

the text’s Annotative property to Yes (On). This applies to any text created

through text styles or through the TEXT and MTEXT commands.

You can set the orientation of annotative text objects to match the orientation

of the paper. For more information about setting the orientation of annotative

objects, see

Set Orientation for Annotations (page 563).