Text entities in gCADPlus drawings are created using different font types. These fonts can be true CAD fonts, such as gCADPlus, AutoCAD SHX, or Windows fonts. The text entity is created using the TEXT, MTEXT, or WTEXT command and is drawn in a style dictated by the current text style.
Tip: Several text styles are built into gCADPlus, including standard, simplex, complex, and mono. These styles cannot be removed.
Tip: Most landscape designers want to give their drawings a particular ‘look and feel’ by selecting one of the hand-drawn fonts below. Note the size variation, even though the height setting is the same in each text entity shown.
Creating a text style
From the Format drop-down window, it is possible to create new styles using a font chosen from a long list. The figure below shows the gCADPlus TextStyles Manager and the CAD font simplex currently associated with Style1. A Windows font, Garamond, also appears in the list with its distinctive blue and black TT icon. The green tick shows the text style (standard in this case) currently in operation – in this case, it’s Style1.
