How Do You Keep A Text Style?

[Fire_col]

Right I'm having a problem, I've created a text style and applied it and it works on the drawing in which I created it, but on other drawings or when I close CAD and open it again it's no longer there. How do I make sure that my text style is always present in CAD?

[bonehead411]

Create the style in your drawing template file. All subsequent drawings will have the style from the off. All styles, or indeed anything you intend to use regularly, should be created in your template drawing.

 

Just so I'm straight with this, is the style disappearing from the drawing you created it in when cad is restarted?

[Fire_col]

Oh so you just need to save the drawing and then it's always on there. Right easy enough, I thought there was a specific place to save a text style like you do with LIPS etc.

 

Boy do I feel stupid!

[bonehead411]

Everything's easy when you know how :wink:

 

If you have your template file set up well it can save you masses of time in the long run. Linetypes, text/dimension styles, layouts etc. can all be accessed through the Design Centre, should you find yourself needing them, retrospectively perhaps.

[ReMark]

You can drag and drop the text style you created in one drawing into another via the Design Center as a stop-gap measure.

[Tankman]

Save your template with the text style?

[alanjt]

I still have it recreate our textstyles with a small LISP routine, loaded through the acaddoc.lsp. This way, we have all needed textstyles (I also do this for linetypes, dimension styles etc.) in any drawing we open, regardless of template or if the drawing had been completely purged.

[Tankman]

I still have it recreate our textstyles with a small LISP routine, loaded through the acaddoc.lsp. This way, we have all needed textstyles (I also do this for linetypes, dimension styles etc.) in any drawing we open, regardless of template or if the drawing had been completely purged.

 

Sounds like the answer! All will always be as you like it! Great! :wink: