Add text notes to your completed detail in AutoCAD, including changing your layer, adjusting your multileader style, and aligning your new text notes. This article provides step-by-step instructions on these processes, helping you to effectively communicate your designs.
Key Insights
- The article discusses the process of changing the current layer in AutoCAD to a.ano.note, which lays the foundation for adding text notes to a completed detail.
- It highlights the importance of adjusting the multileader style to 'text notes 12', explaining the significance of the number 12 in AutoCAD as it relates to scale settings of 1 foot equals 12 inches.
- The article provides guidelines on how to align new text notes with existing ones, create notes using the 'mleader' command, and remove unwanted guides to maintain clean and effective sheet details and schedules.
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Now let's add some text notes to our completed detail here. First, let's go ahead and change our layer. We'll go back to layer and we want to change our current layer to a.ano.note. A.ano.note, double click.
There it is as our current layer. Now we need to go in and change our multileader style which is mleader style and we want to change it to text notes 12. Now why the number 12? That's a common AutoCAD thing.
If their scale is set to 1 to 1, which it is, one foot is 12 inches. And so that's what we're going to use. We'll set that as our current and click close.
Now we want to line up our new text notes with our existing text notes. So let's type in the line command, L-I-N-E, click right here, snap to the corner of one of these text notes, but go up, click and escape. There we go.
Now for the moment I'll turn off ortho and let's create some notes. Let's type in mleader and let's go to this lower stud, click on its corner, and we'll go kind of between the two studs. We'll click a line right here, click, and we'll type in what this is, which is middle wall studs, and we'll do at, actually let's do an extra line, we'll hit ENTER, and we'll do at 16 inches OC, which stands for on center, and then click away to wrap that up.
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That looks pretty good, but we're only pointing to one stud and we have two in our detail. Let's go ahead and do the mleader again. We'll click one time on this upper stud, click, back to this same point, click, and for our text we'll put a space and click away.
And there it is. We kind of cheated the system to get a second arrow. This one doesn't go to anything, but we have a double arrow now.
Let's go ahead and do another one because that was a lot of fun. Let's do mleader and we're going to click right here at the installation, and just right here is fine, and then we'll come and we'll click right here, click, and we'll type in bat installation. And there we have it.
We've added a couple of notes to our detail and now we can select and remove our guideline. Just delete it and double click back into paper space and take a look at our wonderful sheet details and schedules.
