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340 ANNOTATION - Creating itemized lists with the TCOUNT command

340 ANNOTATION - Creating itemized lists with the TCOUNT command - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

340 ANNOTATION - Creating itemized lists with the TCOUNT command

- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD. We're going to be taking a look at a tool that is available in Express Tools in full AutoCAD, and it involves annotation and working with your text annotation in your drawings. We have a drawing for you. It's called 340 Annotation-TCOUNT.dwg and you can download it from the exercise files to follow along with this particular tips and tricks video. Now, as I said, the TCOUNT command is also known as auto number. It's this one here in the text panel in the Express Tools tab in full AutoCAD. Be aware that you cannot use Express Tools in AutoCAD LT. So let's have a look at this auto number command or TCOUNT command. What does it do and what can I use it for? So let's jump to my auto number command and click on it. And the first thing obviously you've got to do is select the objects you want to auto number. So I'm going to select these three lines of single line texts,…

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