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Summarization: Summarize What Has Been Said in The Annotation Video

In the video, the basics of annotation in AutoCAD were discussed. AutoCAD annotations make projects meaningful by providing important information that drawings alone cannot convey. There are two main ways to annotate in AutoCAD: dimensions and text. The dimensions palette provides tools for different dimension types like linear, angular, radius, and diameter dimensions to measure objects. The text palette allows inserting single or multi-line text that can be formatted and edited like words in Microsoft Word. Both dimensions and text allow adding clarifying information to designs.

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Summarization: Summarize What Has Been Said in The Annotation Video

In the video, the basics of annotation in AutoCAD were discussed. AutoCAD annotations make projects meaningful by providing important information that drawings alone cannot convey. There are two main ways to annotate in AutoCAD: dimensions and text. The dimensions palette provides tools for different dimension types like linear, angular, radius, and diameter dimensions to measure objects. The text palette allows inserting single or multi-line text that can be formatted and edited like words in Microsoft Word. Both dimensions and text allow adding clarifying information to designs.

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Summarization

Summarize what has been said in the annotation video.

In the video, she discussed the Basics of Annotation in AutoCAD

AutoCAD ANNOTATION is what makes a project have all its meaning and its raison
d’être to the eyes of someone looking at it when the creator of the project is not
around. Annotations can also help CAD drafters keep track of all the important
information a plain image cannot express in a project.

In AutoCAD, a few of the many ways to Annotate a draft are to use DIMENSIONS pallet
tools and the TEXT pallet tools.

Those will help you put written information on your design making it easier to vision
and to elucidate.

TEXT
This pallet provides tools that help you write text in the drawing area. A text after
creation will be just behaving like an ordinary object in AutoCAD. You will be able to
move it, duplicate it, or do any other things you would with an image.

How to insert text and how to edit


-When you click the text options, you can see the Multiline text and Single line text.

• MULTILINE TEXT (MTEXT command)


This command will simply allow you to create a multiline text object in AutoCAD as you
would if you are using Microsoft word. To use it, you have to first specify the area in
the drawing window where you would like the text to appear, then you will be able to
enter your text.

The following shows a result of a text created using MTEXT.


After creating a text (or while), you will be able to control its style and formatting, you
will be able to create paragraphs, insert symbols, break the text into columns, and
more.
To access the formatting tools, double-click on the text you created.

• SINGLE LINE (TEXT command)


Contrary to the latter, TEXT allows you to create a single line text object in AutoCAD.
The major difference between the TEXT command and the MTEXT command is that
while creating a text object with the TEXT command, each time you press the ENTER
key, you are creating a piece of text not in the same entity as the previous one. Both
can be selected separately and move independently one from another.
The TEXT command also easily allows creating texts while playing with their
orientation.

In changing the text size


-Select the text
-Right-click
-Go to properties
-You can scroll down to the text then go to the text height
-Press enter and it's done

DIMENSION
Creates multiple dimensions and types of dimensions with a single command.

You can select objects or points on objects to dimension, and then click to place the
dimension line. When you hover over an object, the DIM command automatically
generates a preview of a suitable dimension type to use.

Supported dimension types include the following:

• Vertical, horizontal, and aligned linear dimensions


• Ordinate dimensions
• Angular dimensions
• Radius and jogged radius dimensions
• Diameter dimensions
• Arc length dimensions

• LINEAR DIMENSIONS
Linear dimensions can be horizontal, vertical, or aligned. With aligned dimensions, the
dimension line is parallel to the line (imaginary or real) between the extension line
origins. Baseline (or parallel) and continued (or chain) dimensions are a series of
consecutive dimensions that are based on a linear dimension. As you create linear
dimensions, you can modify the content of the text, the angle of the text, or the angle
of the dimension line.

• ALIGNED DIMENSION
Creates a linear dimension that is aligned with the origin points of the extension lines.
In aligned dimensions, the dimension line is parallel to the extension line origins.

• ANGULAR DIMENSION
You can place angular dimensions on multiple reference points sharing a common
intersection. You cannot drag the dimension arc to display a full circle.

• ARC LENGTH DIMENSION


Arc length dimensions measure the distance along an arc or polyline arc segment.
Typical uses of arc length dimensions include measuring the travel distance around a
cam or indicating the length of a cable. To differentiate them from linear or angular
dimensions, arc length dimensions display an arc symbol by default.

• RADIUS DIMENSION
Creates a radius dimension for a circle or an arc.

• DIAMETER DIMENSION
The diameter dimension in a drawing is to measure the diameter of a circle or arc.
• ORDINATE DIMENSION
Ordinate dimensions measure the perpendicular distance from an origin point called
the datum to a feature, such as a hole in a part. These dimensions prevent escalating
errors by maintaining accurate offsets of the features from the datum. Ordinate
dimensions consist of an X or Y value with a leader line.

• JOGGED DIMENSION
Creates jogged dimensions for circles and arcs. It measures the radius of the selected
object and displays the dimension text with a radius symbol in front of it. The origin
point of the dimension line can be specified at any convenient location.

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