Annotating and Dimensioning for Design and Drafting - Annotating with text | Autodesk

Annotating and Dimensioning for Design and Drafting

Outline

1

Getting started

Module overview

Course overview

Get the software

Course resources

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Annotating with text

Module overview

Create and modify text styles

Control the appearance of multiline text

Control the appearance of single-line text

Practice exercise

3

Dimensioning

Module overview

Create and modify dimension styles

Create a dimension substyle

Create and modify linear dimensions

Work with radial dimensions

Create angular dimensions

Modify center marks and centerlines

Align dimensions

Adjust the space between dimensions

Break dimension lines and extension lines

Control overlapping dimensions

Challenge exercise

4

Creating multileaders

Module overview

Change the order of multileader content creation

Add a multileader with block content

Control the multileader style

Add and remove leaders

Align multileaders

Collect multileaders

Edit multileaders

Practice exercise

5

Scaling annotative objects

Module overview

Work with the annotation scaling tools

Control annotation scales

Create annotative text

Create annotative dimensions

Control the visibility of annotative objects

Control available scales

Practice exercise

6

Annotating with fields

Module overview

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Creating tables and linking data

Module overview

Control table appearance using table styles

Link data in a table

Combining extracted and linked data

Challenge exercise

8

Annotating with linetypes

Module overview

Control linetypes by layer and by object

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Final test

Module overview

Start your final test

Professional | ~50 min.

Annotating with text

Module | Skill builder

Text is the most basic annotation you can add to a drawing. Text style allows you to control the appearance of text, which is then be applied to create your desired annotation. Learn how to create and modify text styles, create text using those styles, and update annotation objects in your drawing to conform with industry and project standards.

After completing this section, you'll be able to:

Create and modify text styles.
Control the appearance of single-line and multiline text.
Align annotation objects and adjust the spacing between them.

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