Circling Note Numbers Automatically

[CyberAngel]

One of the standards at my firm is the way we handle annotation. There is an indented and numbered list of notes, each of which corresponds to a multileader on the plan. The multileader has the default Circle content with a number inside.

 

Here's where it gets tricky. The numbered note corresponding to the multileader also has a circle around the number. For two years I've manually drawn and placed these circles because I haven't come up with a way to automate the process, that is, a way involving less effort than it already takes.

 

Short of writing some code that duplicates most of the MText functionality, I've run out of ideas. I'd appreciate any suggestions.

[mdbdesign]

Express Tool:

Command: tcircle

Select TEXT, MTEXT or ATTDEF objects...

[CyberAngel]

Express Tool:

Command: tcircle

Select TEXT, MTEXT or ATTDEF objects...

 

That puts a circle around the entire text object. I need to put circles around individual characters inside an MText object. If I explode the text, I can separate the numbers and put circles around them, but then there's the added complexity of keeping the text, the number, and the circle together, as well as spacing out the notes in the group when they change. But thanks for the suggestion.

[BIGAL]

If you only have up to 10 then you can use TTF they have a character set which has a number in a circle maybe dingbats ? it can be used in mtext.

 

If you want to exceed 10 then you may have to look at your shx font take a std one and replace characters not used with text with a circle.

 

Thinking again if you take text or mtext read it and add a circle to the text but it will not be part of the text still two objects. Theres propably a lisp here to do that. It would get around the problem of changing the notes erase the circles and just redo.

 

Also search maybe for a TTF that is numbers in a circle ? had a quick search and it looked promising but at a small cost.