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Quick Reference

Commands

ANNOUPDATE

Updates existing annotative objects to match the current properties of their

styles.

DIMSTYLE

Creates and modifies dimension styles.

MLEADERSTYLE

Creates and modifies multileader styles.

STYLE

Creates, modifies, or specifies text styles.

Create Annotative Text

Use

annotative on page 2289 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.

The current

annotation scale on page 2289 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 on page 1356.