Creating Drawing Labels

Use the Drawing Label tool to add descriptive information to a drawing. By default, a label object includes a title, the scale of the drawing, and an automatically assigned drawing number. The number of the sheet that contains the drawing can also be included in the label. The default values for the title, drawing number, and sheet number depend on where the label is placed: on a design layer, or in a viewport annotation, for example.

Drawing labels maintain a constant size regardless of the drawing scale.

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To create a drawing label:

  1. Click the Drawing Label tool from the Dims/Notes tool set.

  2. Click to place the object in the drawing, and click again to set the rotation.

The first time you use the tool in a file, a properties dialog box opens. Set the default properties, and click OK. The properties can be edited from the Object Info palette.

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Using Notation Objects

The Attributes Palette

Formatting Text

Using Text Styles

 

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