Boxed Text

[Jabba]

I know one of you Cad Monkeys out there will help with this; I want to automatically place a box around a written piece of text. I realise that there is a function in dimension tolerances that creates a basic dimension, which displays a box around the full extents of the dimension. The distance between the text and the box is stored as a negative value in the DIMGAP system variable.
Does anyone have a simple method of automatically doing this other than manualy placing a rectangle around mtext. I'm using AutoCAD 2006 LT.

[Tiger]

Express -> Text -> Enclose text with object (might be called something else in your version)

[Zorg]

Thanks tiger!

But that isn't under my express tools. Is there a download or a straight command for that one?

Z

[Tiger]

You have the same version as me Zorg, so you should find it in the same place that I do....do you acess the rest of your Express-tools? TCIRCLE is the typed command, see if that works.

[Zorg]

Ahh.. I modified my menu's recently and must have took it out by mistake! Thanks again for this tool tip Tiger!

[dtkell]

This lisp may be a good substitute.

[Ryder76]

The op is running LT - No Lisp, No Express Tools

[dtkell]

Got to read those columns on the left!

[Tiger]

hawt diggety... missed the LT-part :(

Then I'm sorry to say that none of this will help, and as far as I know you're stuck with doing it the old fashioned way and draw rectangles :(