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Al Whitley/2 min read

Adjusting Text Size in Details for Accuracy: A Step-by-Step Guide

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This tutorial walks through adjusting text size in details for accuracy, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

One thing we didn't double-check was to make sure that the text size that was used originally matches what we need for our details. If I list the detail border, it has a scale factor of 4. So a scale factor of 4. If the text needs to be an eighth of an inch times a scale factor of 4, in this detail it needs to be a half an inch high. So I'm going to zoom in, and I will select the text, and I see that it's three-eighths of an inch.

I want it to be a half an inch. I'll type in 1 over 2. Now that I have one right, I'll do Match Properties, MA. Here's the source.

Here's the destination. Hit Escape. Pick on the text.

Let the grip go perpendicular to here. Control+S to save. Match Properties, MA, Source, Destination, Escape.

The only issue I see is that these details ride into one another. I'm going to say move this from the insertion point to the node I'll go up to. Control+S to save.

What I need to do now is to stretch the MLeader to the proper location. Stretch Crossing. Arbitrary Point.

Taking Ortho off. Making sure that Polar is back on. And I want to stretch it up at a 60-degree angle.

Hit Escape. Control+S to save. I'll draw a line from the end of this leader, Ortho on, straight up.

Zoom in. Choose. Slide to the left.

Take the grip. Go perpendicular to the line. Control+S to save.

Back off. Erase that line. Zoom Extents.

And once again save. Now we've gone through the detail and we have double-confirmed that the people who created the source detail, even though they might not have used our standard text height size, that we were able to adjust their text to meet our text size relative to the scale at which the drawing will be plotted. So Control+S to save.

And I will see you now in the next video.