gil9166 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 how to globally change text color to by layer in autocad 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feargt Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 try selecting all the text that you want to change using "qselect" and then in properties change colour to Bylayer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumfatnhappy Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 try selecting all the text that you want to change using "qselect" and then in properties change colour to Bylayer IS THERE A "SELECT SIMILAR" IN 2008? (RIGHT CLICK AFTER PICKING AN ENTITY) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gil9166 Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 it doesn't work, try it for your self first, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanjt Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 SetByLayer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwhitt0724 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 right click where ever the text is you want to change (ie: model space or paper space), click quick select, apply to set to "entire drawing", object type set to "mtext" (or "text", whichever it is you want to change), properties box can be set to anything, operator box should be set to "select all". make sure the "include in new selection set" is picked. click ok. it should select all the mtext (or text) in the drawing. from there you can right click and click properties and set the color to "by layer". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strix Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 it doesn't work, try it for your self first, thanksSomebody without the same version of ACAD as you won't be able to 'try it for themselves first', or may be posting whilst at work and not have (time-sheeted company) time to work your problems through for you This forum does not tolerate snipes, baiting or trolling. It is here as a support function for people at work, so our members are required to post courteously to each other Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzframpton Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 it doesn't work, try it for your self first, thanks Wow...... Rude. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Somebody without the same version of ACAD as you won't be able to 'try it for themselves first', or may be posting whilst at work and not have (time-sheeted company) time to work your problems through for you This forum does not tolerate snipes, baiting or trolling. It is here as a support function for people at work, so our members are required to post courteously to each other Strix, thanks. I almost replied last night but having left work I couldn't try so thought I'd leave it for a mod to comment. And out of interest, I have now tried feargt's suggestion and it works on my copy of 2008. However if the OP meant the colour of text within an MTEXT item then it doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzframpton Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Even though you were pretty rude in your above post, I'll help you out anyways. Here is a Lisp routine made by Elise Moss that globally changes all MTEXT to ByLayer throughout the entire drawing. Please be courteous to our senior members, we are only here to help and not all of use are using older versions of AutoCAD when we make suggestions. cmtxt.lsp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrehor Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Even though you were pretty rude in your above post, I'll help you out anyways. Here is a Lisp routine made by Elise Moss that globally changes all MTEXT to ByLayer throughout the entire drawing. Please be courteous to our senior members, we are only here to help and not all of use are using older versions of AutoCAD when we make suggestions. nice LISP, though hungry. it eats the last character of mtext in 2011 :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gil9166 Posted October 15, 2010 Author Share Posted October 15, 2010 where is the LISP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 where is the LISP? It is part of the last post (#10) on page 1 by StykFacE. Look for the cmtxt.lsp link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gil9166 Posted October 19, 2010 Author Share Posted October 19, 2010 thank you very much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noorb Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 how can i modify the lisp so it keeps the precision the same as it is ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 noorb: Are we talking about the same lisp routine? The one referenced here globally changes all MTEXT to ByLayer. It should not change "precision". And which "precision" are you talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noorb Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 yes i am talking about the same lisp ... i mean it eats the last character of mtext in autocad 2007 ex : 786.674 will be 786.67 after using the lisp !! do you have any solution for this ?? thank you so much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 In my test it did not change the precision of any number included in MTEXT no matter how many decimal places after the were occupied. My test numbers looked like this: 123.456 234.5678 345.678 678.9999 123.4567890 My precision was set to 3 decimal places in the Units command. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noorb Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 its not only about precision , also the words ... for example : station will be statio after using the lisp .. i think there is something wrong in it , but i can't figure it out .. if you can check it you will see what am talking about .. please help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Sorry, but I encountered no problems with characters used in words or numbers being truncated in any manner. And yes, I ran the lisp routine six times using a variety of MTEXT entries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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