Create and manage annotation styles

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Autocad

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annotation comes in a variety of object types.

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From text to tables and styles play an important role in working with them.

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After completing this video, you will be able to

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create and manage annotation styles, apply annotation styles open the drawing.

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Dr Residence provided in the data set.

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If it's not already displayed, press control one to open the property's pallet,

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all the text you see throughout a drawing, whether it's a simple piece of text,

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text in a dimension or multi

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liter text in a table or an attribute within a block.

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All the text you see references a text style in this drawing.

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One of the room labels appears different from the others.

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Select the master bedroom lab label in the properties pallet.

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It is shown to reference the textile named labels,

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press escape to unselected the text.

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Now select the sitting area label.

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Its textile is different,

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select the name of the style in the properties pallet and change it to labels the

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text updates to reflect the properties of that

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style matching the other labels on the drawing.

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Let's take a closer look at how the label's textile is defined on the ribbons,

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annotate tab,

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click the textiles fly out on the text panel

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title to open the text style editor in the textiles

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dialog box on the right side of the dialog

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are all the properties associated with that text style.

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The font determines the overall look of the text.

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A supports two types of fonts, shape based or S H X fonts and true type

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fonts.

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There are unique characteristics to both S H X fonts support line weights by color.

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For example, if red is designated to plot thin, any S H X based text

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that is red will also plot thin true type fonts do not support line weight by color.

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On the other hand, some true type fonts offer styles such as bold or italic.

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The text size can be either annotative or have a preset height.

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Annotative styles will adapt the height of the text

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based on the current annotation scale to maintain the

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paper text height that's assigned to that style.

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Textiles that are annotative are represented with a

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blue triangular marker beside the name for a non

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annotative style.

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The default height is assigned when text is used that references this style,

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the height will have to be adjusted as needed in order to view and plot correctly.

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The width factor will adjust the overall width of the text

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and the oblique angle will determine how the text is slanted.

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The upside down backwards and vertical effects can be

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used for special situations if supported by the selected font

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to change the look of the room names.

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We need to change the font assigned to the label's style.

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With the label style selected, choose a different font from the drop down list.

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Click apply and close the dialogue.

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All the text that references that style updates to reflect the styles change.

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Now let's create a new textile to add labels to the closets on the plan press,

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enter to open the text style dialogue again, select the label's style and click new.

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This creates a new style based on the one that was selected

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and makes that new style current name, the new style italic click OK.

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Under font name, select complex dot S H X.

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This particular font doesn't have an italic option.

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So change the oblique angle to 15 to emulate the look of an italic fond,

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change the paper height to 150.125, click apply

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then close on the annotate tab, click the multi line text tool,

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pick a location for the label type closet and

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click outside of the editor to close the command.

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Another commonly used annotation object is a multi

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liter

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and multi liter styles serve the same purpose

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for multi leaders that textiles serve for text.

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They provide a central definition of all of the visual

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and behavioral characteristics of the leaders that reference that style

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on the ribbons annotate tab,

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click the flyout arrow on the leaders panel title to open the multi

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leader style manager This provides a list of all

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the multi liter styles currently defined in the drawing.

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Let's click new,

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give the new style the name leaders and click continue.

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The leader format tab contains the various properties

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for the leader itself and how it looks,

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whether the leader is straight or curved.

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It's various properties like color line type,

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what the arrowhead should look like and how big let's

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just set the color to red for this exercise.

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The leader structure tab provides

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there's more properties of how the leader should look.

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Primarily whether the leader will be constrained

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to a certain number of pick points,

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how it will be scaled and what its landing will look like for this style,

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set the landing distance to 0.25,

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press the tab key to see the preview update

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accordingly and make sure that annotative scaling is checked.

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The content tab has the properties of the business end of the leader,

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whether it's going to be text and if so what textile, what text height, color,

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et cetera

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or if it's going to be a block and if it's a block, what block is it going to use?

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How is it going to be attached and scaled and color, et cetera.

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Let's use the m text type, set, the text style to dims,

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set its color to green

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and check the frame text option, click OK to return to the multi liter style manager

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and click close on the ribbon, X annotate tab again, click the multi

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liter tool on the leaders panel,

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click the arrowhead location on the red rectangle representing the door,

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pick a location for the landing

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and then type sliding barn door.

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Adjust the text box

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and click away from the leader to finish the command.

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In the same way that we change the style of the text.

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Changing the style of the multi leader will also change its overall look

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by creating and using textiles.

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You can manage the look of your drawing, annotation in one place,

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maintaining consistency and accuracy throughout your drawing.