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336 ANNOTATION - Creating effective text labels with Express Tools

336 ANNOTATION - Creating effective text labels with Express Tools - AutoCAD Tutorial

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336 ANNOTATION - Creating effective text labels with Express Tools

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD and we're going to be taking a look at annotation and how we can create effective labels using the AutoCAD Express Tools. Now we've got a drawing for you. You can download it as usual from the exercise files and it is 336 Annotation-LABELS.dwg. When you download the file and open it, you should be in the Model tab and you should see the text that you've got in front of you. It should read, "Sentence text, lowercase text, uppercase text." They are three lines of single lines text. They're not multi-line text yet. They will be soon when we work through this particular tip and trick. Now bear in mind we are using the Express Tools in full AutoCAD. So if you are using AutoCAD LT you don't get the Express Tools with AutoCAD LT. So you will need to perform this exercise on a full version of AutoCAD. Now what we've got, like I said, is three lines of single line text. So if I hover over them, little tool tip pops up as you can see…

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