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Code Red => AutoLISP (Vanilla / Visual) => Topic started by: mailmaverick on September 20, 2017, 09:50:42 AM

Title: TRACKING change in Text Attribute
Post by: mailmaverick on September 20, 2017, 09:50:42 AM

How to change TRACKING setting (\T) setting in Attribute of a Block ?
I want \T to be 2.65.

Title: Re: TRACKING change in Text Attribute
Post by: roy_043 on September 20, 2017, 11:50:07 AM

Of course the attribute would have to be an MTextAttribute and AFAIK adding this formatting to the attribute definition has no effect.

For an mtext attribute reference this works:

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1. (setq obj (vlax-ename->vla-object (car (nentsel))))
2. (vla-put-textstring obj (strcat "\\T2.65;" (vla-get-textstring obj)))

Title: Re: TRACKING change in Text Attribute
Post by: mailmaverick on September 25, 2017, 03:49:37 AM

Thanks Roy but problem is how to add Mtext Attribute ?
When i Do Right Click on Block ->Block Editor, it goes into the editor.
Then in the Menu above, there is an option of "Attribute Definition" which when i click, it always puts DTEXT and not MTEXT. And when I run TXT2MTXT Express Tool Command on it, it no longer remains an attribute and changes to Mtext.

Title: Re: TRACKING change in Text Attribute
Post by: roy_043 on September 25, 2017, 04:23:05 AM

http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2007/03/autocad_2008_ma.html