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423 ANNOTATION - Enclosing annotation text with objects [Express Tools]

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423 ANNOTATION - Enclosing annotation text with objects [Express Tools]

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- [Instructor] The AutoCAD Express Tools go back many, many years and some of these Express Tools are incredibly useful, especially when you're working with annotation. What we're going to take a look at is a particular Express Tool that allows you to enclose annotation text with objects, and it doesn't matter what type of text it is either, it can be single line text, it can be multi-line text. We've got a drawing for you. It's a very simple one. It's called 423 Enclosing Text.dwg It's called 423 Enclosing Text.dwg and when you download it from the library and open it up in AutoCAD, go into the model tab, it's two lines of text. That's it. LinkedIn Learning is in green, that's single line text. AutoCAD tips and tricks is in red and that is multi-line text. So one of them is text; one of them is MText. And what we're going to look at is the Express Tool that allows us to enclose the text. Now, make sure in the layers…

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