Jon McElwain Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 I used to have a lisp routine for selecting multiple strings of single line text and converting them to a single multiline text box. I think there was even an express tool in previous versions of CAD to do this. I am in 2011 now, and I can not find a command for this. Anyone know how to do it? I would even settle for simply changing single line to multiline without adding multiple strings... Thanks! Quote
ReMark Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Text2mText. And it was in Express Tools but you don't have lisp capability in LT so you'll need to find another way to do it. Quote
Jon McElwain Posted February 13, 2012 Author Posted February 13, 2012 I tried that as well as txt2mtxt - it just comes up as an unknown command. I am in AutoCAD LT 2011. Do the express tools come with LT? Quote
ReMark Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 LT means no lisp capability (i.e. - no Express Tools). Quote
Jon McElwain Posted February 13, 2012 Author Posted February 13, 2012 Copy the Text and Paste into MTEXT. Someone made a crap-ton of imitation multileaders in several a drawings for me to fix. They consist of two strings of single line text with an independent leader dropped sort of close to where a multileader would be attached. I was going to at least change the text into mText, but it looks like I'll be spending the rest of the day creating new multileaders and cutting/pasting the single line text into the multileader text boxes. Why would someone do this???? Quote
SLW210 Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 It may have originated from older versions. I get tons of that stuff, luckily I have always had full AutoCAD. There are some inexpensive/free clones, maybe they are able to convert to mtext. Or even a free 30 day trial of full AutoCAD. Quote
Jon McElwain Posted February 13, 2012 Author Posted February 13, 2012 It may have originated from older versions. I get tons of that stuff, luckily I have always had full AutoCAD. There are some inexpensive/free clones, maybe they are able to convert to mtext. Or even a free 30 day trial of full AutoCAD. I wish it had originated from a previous version - that would make me feel better about it. But alas, I was working in the drawing a couple of weeks ago and someone else added this stuff after I worked in it. Oh, and they used multileaders without the leaders instead of mText. It turns out it you edit a multileader without a leader, it skips across the page when you close it. Lame. My left click finger is getting sore.... Quote
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