Summary

Creating and editing text are tasks that nearly everyone has to tackle at some point. If your job is to just update the text in a drawing, all you have to do is double-click the text and make your changes in the Text panel that appears. Format changes are a little more involved, but if you're familiar with most text editors, you'll find that AutoCAD's text-editing features follow methods used in most other word processors. Creating text requires some familiarity with methods for scaling your text properly to make it the correct size. Also, placing the text in the Model tab or a layout tab affects how you deal with text scaling.

Another type of annotation you'll want to know about is dimensioning. In the next chapter, you'll learn about the tools for creating dimensions in AutoCAD and how you can change dimensions as your drawings change.