Texts
CAD Toolbar:

Menu:
Draw - Text
Command:
text
Description:
Use this tool to create single line and multi line texts.
Procedure:
- Just after launching the tool, the text dialog is presented in which
you can choose the font and enter the text you want to create (Figure
34).

Figure 34: The text
creation dialog.
- Choose the font name and attributes in the upper left area
of the dialog (Figure 35). For a complete list of all
available fonts, please refer to the appendix. In the height field, enter
the height of the text in the unit of your drawing. To choose normal
line spacing, click the checkbox "Default line spacing". You can increase
or decrease the line spacing by disabling the checkbox and entering a
value in the "Line spacing" box. The value entered is a factor relative
to the default (1.0). Valid values range from 0.25 to 4.00. Values
outside this range are allowed but break compatibility to other CAD
programs such as AutoCAD.

Figure 35: Font
selection.
- Choose the alignment of the text (Figure
36).

Figure 36: Text
alignment.
- Enter the angle for the text (Figure 37).
Normal horizontal texts have an angle of zero degrees.

Figure 37: Text
angle.
- Enter the text you want to create in the large text box
(Figure 38). You can also use the icons above the box to
load texts, save texts you've already entered or to paste texts from the
clipboard.
To enter special symbols that are not available on your keyboard, you can
use the combobox at the bottom left of the dialog (Figure
39). Simply choose a symbol from the list and it will be
placed at the current cursor position in the text box.
If the symbol list doesn't contain the symbol you need, please use the
comboboxes at the bottom right to choose any character from the unicode
char set (Figure 40). Note that the font you've chosen
might not contain the characters you insert. In that case the characters
will be ignored.
To insert a unicode character, select the unicode page in the first
combobox and choose the character from the second combobox. Now click the
button at the right to insert the character at the current cursor
position.

Figure 38: The text area
where you can enter or load a text.

Figure 39: Insert special
symbols using the Symbol combobox.

Figure 40: Insert any
unicode characters with the unicode tools..
- Click "OK" to exit the text dialog.
- Use the mouse to specify the location of the text or enter
a co-ordinate in the command line.
-
Often, users need to create a number of similar texts. For that reason
the text tool doesn't terminate after creating the first text entity.
You can change the text and the text angle in the options toolbar and
create other texts with similar settings.
- Right click or press Escape to stop the text tool.
Advanced Text Commands
Sometimes it's useful to put two texts on top of each other (e.g. for
tolerances). There's a sepcial escape sequence you can type anywhere
in the text to achieve that. For example the sequence "10\S+0.05\-0.05;
Millimeter" would produce a tolerance symbol as shown in Figure
41.

Figure 41: Text produced
by the string "10\S+0.05\-0.05; Millimeter".
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