Topic: MText (Word Doc Paste Limit)

[Guest]

Anybody know what the limit is for pasting from a word doc into mtext?  Either the help file doesn't have it or it's hidden really well!  My initial test here was limited to 10 pages from a word doc.  Is it based on number of pages or number of characters?

[Josh Nieman]

Anybody know what the limit is for pasting from a word doc into mtext?  Either the help file doesn't have it or it's hidden really well!  My initial test here was limited to 10 pages from a word doc.  Is it based on number of pages or number of characters?

# of characters, and it was like 25,000 range iirc... lemme check the OTHER newsgroup...

[Josh Nieman]

I believe the current limit is roughly 32,767 characters (32k).

That was from the 07 NG.

[Guest]

Awww-ight then!

[Dave R]

24,000 is the max. I've been able to copy. I think that equates to about 32K of memory.

[Josh Nieman]

Question:

If you have that much text to be relayed into Autocad, have you thought about maintaining the Word Document and simply inserting it as an OLE object, rather than making it an mtext object?  That way you can use the (imo) superior word processor to maintain and modify the file and still get it in yer tittle block.

[Guest]

Question:

If you have that much text to be relayed into Autocad, have you thought about maintaining the Word Document and simply inserting it as an OLE object, rather than making it an mtext object?  That way you can use the (imo) superior word processor to maintain and modify the file and still get it in yer tittle block.

But it only brings in the first page (unless I'm missing something)??

[CADaver]

ummm... why do you need a ten page doc in a DWG??  Just to be on big paper??

[Josh Nieman]

Question:

If you have that much text to be relayed into Autocad, have you thought about maintaining the Word Document and simply inserting it as an OLE object, rather than making it an mtext object?  That way you can use the (imo) superior word processor to maintain and modify the file and still get it in yer tittle block.

But it only brings in the first page (unless I'm missing something)??

Dunno really, I don't mess with it.... any specs or text we have that goes on out DWGs, we created natively as MTEXT

[Guest]

ummm... why do you need a ten page doc in a DWG??  Just to be on big paper??

Sometimes (not too often thankfully) the designer wants to insert a spec section into the drawings.

[CADaver]

ummm... why do you need a ten page doc in a DWG??  Just to be on big paper??

Sometimes (not too often thankfully) the designer wants to insert a spec section into the drawings.

ummmm??  the specs aren't good enough where they are??

[ronjonp]

ummm... why do you need a ten page doc in a DWG??  Just to be on big paper??

Sometimes (not too often thankfully) the designer wants to insert a spec section into the drawings.

ummmm??  the specs aren't good enough where they are??

I've wondered that too....but I've have had to jump through this hoop as well.  :ugly:

[Guest]

ummm... why do you need a ten page doc in a DWG??  Just to be on big paper??

Sometimes (not too often thankfully) the designer wants to insert a spec section into the drawings.

ummmm??  the specs aren't good enough where they are??

ummmm... apparently not.