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Utilizing the palettes and dialog boxes in AutoCAD

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Utilizing the palettes and dialog boxes in AutoCAD

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our Interface.dwg file. And in this video we're going to take a look at dialog boxes and pallets and how we utilize those in AutoCAD. Now, dialogue boxes have been around for a long time. Dialogue boxes are basically input boxes that you have in a Windows-based application. Now a typical dialogue box would be the text style dialogue box in AutoCAD. So go to the home tab on the ribbon, go to the annotation fly out here, like so, click on it and select the A with the paintbrush there, that little like icon there. That will open up a text style dialogue box. And as you can see there, you've got various inputs that you can utilize to set up, manage, and manipulate your text styles. So you can see at the moment the current text style is standard. So what I can do here is I can change the settings of that standard text style. I can change the font by going to the dropdown menu, like so, I can change the font style if it was a true type font. Let's say we go…

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