Text Placement in Drawings Guidelines: Professor Dr. Miguel Alonso Jr.

Placing Text on Drawings Professor: Dr. Miguel Alonso Jr.

Outline • Text Standards • Scale Factors for Text Highlight • Text Composition • AutoCAD Text Fonts • AutoCAD Text Styles • Using AutoCAD to Draw Text • Multiline Text • Single-Line Text • Using Quick Text Mode • Revising Text with Ddedit • Changing Text with the Properties Window

Text Standards • Minimum recommended text height on engineering drawings is .125” • All other dimension numbers, notes, and other text information • Titles, subtitles, captions, revision info - .188” • Fractions

Scale Factors for Text Height • Scale factor is a reciprocal of the drawing scale • To find the AutoCAD text height, multiply desired text height (.125) by the scaling factor.

AutoCAD Text Styles • Type ST • Format->Text Style • Create a new text style

Using AutoCAD to draw text • Type MTEXT • Draw->Text->Multiline • Toolbar • Keystroke shortcuts on pg 254 • Text Editor ShortCut Menu (right click on while typing text)

Single Line Text • Type TEXT • Draw->Text->Single Line Text

Using Quick Text Mode • Qtext • Speeds redrawing and regen by causing text to be displayed as rectangles

Text revision, Scaling, and Spell Checking • DDEdit • Select text object, right click,and select Mtext Edit, or Edit • SCALETEXT • SPELL • FIND

Drawing Problems • 1 • 2 • 4 • 6 • 7 • 20

Text Placement in Drawings Guidelines: Professor Dr. Miguel Alonso Jr.