Jabba Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 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. Quote
Tiger Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Express -> Text -> Enclose text with object (might be called something else in your version) Quote
Zorg Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Thanks tiger! But that isn't under my express tools. Is there a download or a straight command for that one? Z Quote
Tiger Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 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. Quote
Zorg Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Ahh.. I modified my menu's recently and must have took it out by mistake! Thanks again for this tool tip Tiger! Quote
dtkell Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 This lisp may be a good substitute. shadow box.lsp Quote
Ryder76 Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 The op is running LT - No Lisp, No Express Tools Quote
Tiger Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 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 Quote
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