TheSwamp
CAD Forums => CAD General => CAD Standards => Topic started by: yyou on July 09, 2004, 04:03:48 PM
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Why do people use mtext for a short text like: '4x6' or '2' or '8"'....?
I went to help out a company 2 wks ago and all there text are done in Mtext. The text editor there is wordpad; therefore, whenever I wanted to edit a text wordpad came up. It is really a time consumming.
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Was there a leader attached to the text, if so that is why.
Leaders to the best of my knowledge attach only to MText.
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I use MTEXT for everything, but we have little 1 or 2 button key-ins for everything, too.
TIP:
Use MTEXTED to prefix your wordpad text editor with :lisped# as in:
:lisped#C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe
If the mtext entity has less than 32 characters it will pop up in a dialog box editor just like single line text, more than 32 will pop to the editor.
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Wow CADaver.. that is a nice little trick....never seen that one before... I have set that to my default
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That is just too sweet, THX CADaver.
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If the mtext entity has less than 32 characters it will pop up in a dialog box editor just like single line text, more than 32 will pop to the editor.
I didn't know that, thank you Mr. CADaver.
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excellent tip, how did you ever discover that one ?
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It was in the R13 User's guide for using external text editors with MTEXT. Been using it ever since.
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Cadaver, I hope you don't mind but I've posted it as a tip over on ResourceCAD... and I added a note:
full credits for this tip go to CADAVER
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Cadaver, I hope you don't mind but I've posted it as a tip over on ResourceCAD... and I added a note:
full credits for this tip go to CADAVER
Why would I mind, sure go ahead, I just wish I'd have posted it sooner.