Option

Description

List

Displays a list of the text styles in the drawing. Click a style name to select it.

Font

Face

Select the font for the selected style from the dropdown list.

Bold

Select this checkbox for bold text.

Italic

Select this checkbox for italic text.

Underline

Select this checkbox for underlined text.

Strikethrough

Select this checkbox for text with a strikethrough line.

Height

Enter the text height. You can specify the height in drawing units, mm or inches. If the text height is specified in drawing units the text will be scaled in layouts. If the text height is specified in mm or inches it becomes annotative text, which is always drawn in the specified size on paper regardless of scale.

This height can be overridden when entering text entities in the drawing. If the height is set to 0 then a default height (the last used height) will be used.

Options

Width factor

Enter the horizontal scaling, or stretch, factor. The text entity height is multiplied by this factor to calculate the width.

Escapement

Enter the slant (or obliquing) angle, in degrees, to be applied to the text.

Upside down

Select this checkbox to have text drawn upside down.

Backwards

Select this checkbox to have text drawn backwards. This is useful for printing on the back of transparent media.

Fill behind text

Select this checkbox to have solid background fill, in the selected drawing background colour, behind the text. This is useful for placing annotation on top of other entities such as hatch.

Frame

Select the frame (lines drawn surrounding the text) type from the dropdown list. Options are None, Box, Balloon and Circle.

Sample

Displays what text using this style would look like in the drawing.

Add button

Click to add a new style. The style settings are copied from the currently selected style.

Remove button

Click to remove the currently selected style from the drawing. Only available if the style is not in use in the drawing.

Import...

Import text styles from an existing drawing.

Apply button

Click to apply elements of the selected style to existing text entities.