You can add several lines of text in a
drawing, and use word wrapping if you like. You can select the desired color, height, font,
angle, frame type, and leader line arrow type, and align the text as required.
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Open a drawing
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On the Annotations tab, hold down Shift, click Text and select one of the following commands to create a single line or multiple
lines of text:
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Text: Add text without a leader line at the position you pick.
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With leader line: Add text with a leader line at the position you pick.
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Along line: Add text along a line at the position you pick.
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Along line, arrow at end: Add text along a line at the position you pick. An arrow is
inserted at the second position you pick.
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Along line, arrow at start: Add text along a line at the position you pick. An arrow is
inserted at the first position you pick.
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Enter the text in the
Text box.
You can add a line
break by pressing Enter.
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Modify the text color,
height, font, angle and alignment as required.
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In Background mask, select one of the following:
Opaque hides the area in the drawing that is covered by the text:
Transparent shows the area in the drawing that is covered by the text so that the
linework is shown:
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To wrap the word, set Word wrapping to On. You can define the line length using the Ruler width option.
When the word wrapping is
activated, the text object gets a handle, which you can drag to make the
text wider or narrower.
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Select a frame type,
leader line and color.
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Select the leader line
arrow type and size.
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To exactly place the text
in the position you pick, and keep it there, click the Place... button and select fixed in the Placing list.
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Click OK or Apply.
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Pick the point where you
want to place the text. Depending on the command, you have to pick one to three
times.
By default, text is
aligned to the left. The line spacing is automatically adjusted by the font
size you select. You can also affect the line space by using the advanced
option XS_MARK_LINE_SPACE_FACTOR.
You can continue
picking to add the same line of text in another location. You can also drag
the base point of the text leader line freely after adding the text.
See below for examples of the
different text options. From left: Text; With leader line; Along line; Along line, arrow at end; and Along line, arrow at start.
The text object gets a handle when
word wrapping is activated, and you can drag the handle to change the text object
size:
In the following example, the text is
aligned to the leader line start:
Tip:
In addition to using the text
tool, you can add texts as links from .txt or .rtf files. This allows you to use
more sophisticated formatting of the text, and add tables, for example. For more
information, see Add links to rich
text files.