Text tool

 

Drawing instruction for a drawing

 

At any drawing:-

 

 Select: Tools - Text

or

Select option from Toolbar

 

The program displays a dialog box

 

 

 Enter text

 Select OK to finish

Use mouse to drag text to required location

 

 

 Click left mouse button to finish

 

The text is added to the drawing starting at the cursor location. Select and move text in the same way as other drawing objects.

 

@ fx $ - use these buttons to enter the text as a variable, formula or look-up item

 

Font - Use Properties to change the font

 

Edit options and Properties - right click with the mouse to show the menu of edit options and properties. These vary for each type of drawing object. The property values can be used to set start point, end point, length, thickness ... of each object accurately.

 

See also