Enter Dt, or choose Draw Text Single Line Text. This issues the Dtext command. At the Height prompt, enter 6″ (15 for metric users) to indicate the text height. At the Insert; on angle: prompt, press.J to accept the default, 0. Sep 24, 2004 From the Modify menu, click Object, choose Text, Edit to issue the DDEDIT command. Select the text object to be changed, and the Edit Text dialog box appears, displaying the selected text (see Figure 14.6). Figure 14.6 The Edit Text dialog box. Sep 27, 2015 But it is a fast, speedy way to put text — excuse me, to put a boundary box around your text. The trick there is you have to — you can't do it in the MText Editor, you can't do it as you are putting the text on the screen. You have to put the text on the screen and in your drawing file, and then go into Properties. You can use single-line text to create one or more lines of text, where each text line is an independent object that you can move, format, or otherwise modify. Right-click in the text box to select options on the shortcut menu. While you are in the TEXT command: Click elsewhere in a drawing to start a new set of rows of single-line text.
Manipulate Text
Next on the tips list are some utilities for manipulating text objects. Did you notice the shadow boxes around the title of Harry's artwork? Jeffery Sanders' Text Shadow Box (Tip #2031) provides the highlighting. Jeffery's version of the text shadow box includes a dialog box that lets you set the thickness and direction of the shadow (figure 4).
Copy the two files SBOX.LSP and SBOX.DCL from the download file to a folder in AutoCAD's search path. Load the AutoLISP code in SBOX.LSP and type SBOX at the Command line to display the dialog box. This nice utility spruces up your artwork, as in figure 4.
Andrzej Gumala has dropped a couple of cool tools into Harry's tip box over the past few months, and this one is no slacker.
Gopal Ramesh shared a routine that will help you move text to the center of an object.
'This command is for quickly placing a text object exactly at the center of a box or a circle, irrespective of text's insertion point.'
Text Box Google Docs
Insert Text Box Autocad
NOTES FROM CADALYST TIP PATROL: This routine makes centering text in an object very quick and easy. Start the command, pick the text object, then tell the routine to center it within a circle or a window (box). It defaults to a window. If you type in W as an option, the routine for some reason thinks you mean circle! If you type in a C, it still thinks you want a circle. If you want to center it on a window, just press Enter -- it works fine that way.