Placing text in circle

[richard3009]

How do i place some text so its justified exactly in the centre of a circle, a rectangle i can do, but I'm struggling with a circle.

[richard3009]

multi line text by the way

[eldon]

Have you tried text justification MC?

 

Perhaps it is more complicated than that, and a picture would help.

[richard3009]

yes I understand that, the trouble is you have to place the text box on the screen what do i snap to it, the text box has 2 place points

[richard3009]

single line text is not an issue

[Organic]

yes I understand that, the trouble is you have to place the text box on the screen what do i snap to it, the text box has 2 place points

 

Place it anywhere and then move it, setting the align of the text to Middle Center (or do that once and then copy-paste it)

[Tyke]

Try the Express Tools command TCIRCLE to place a circle around the MTEXT.

[richard3009]

Does autocad LT have express tools, I find in incredible that mtext is so long winded to place centrally in a circle

[richard3009]

Place it anywhere and then move it, setting the align of the text to Middle Center (or do that once and then copy-paste it)

 

Should be able to place first time and where is the pick point on the text

[eldon]

Perhaps you should be writing the Mtext first, and then drawing the circle centred on the text's Insertion snap.

 

Mtext seems to need a width, hence its two pick points. If you have a centre pick point, how do you pick the width

[Tyke]

Does autocad LT have express tools, I find in incredible that mtext is so long winded to place centrally in a circle

 

No, I don't think so. Express Tools are mostly a collection of LISP routines and LISP doesn't run on LT. Your profile shows "AutoCAD 2008" not LT, that's why you got the ET suggestion.

 

But eldon's suggestion of creating the MText first is the easiest and quickest way for you in LT.

[richard3009]

how do you switch on the mtext snap point so when placing the circle I can locate the exact centre of the mtext

[Tiger]

As eldon said, the Insertion Snappoint is what you are looking for in the OSNap menu

[Tyke]

Don't forget to set the MText alignment to Middle Center. As eldon said previously:

Have you tried text justification MC?

[richard3009]

Brilliant that's me sorted thank you all for your help "insertion point was the key" thanks again

[eldon]

As eldon said

 

As eldon said

 

Thank you team, for the backup

[Tiger]

Thank you team, for the backup

 

Credit where credit is due

[Tyke]

Credit where credit is due

 

I can only endorse that sentiment

[rkent]

With Mtext, use MC justification, change line spacing to At Least and set to 1x (default), snap to the quadrants at 12 O'clock and 6 O'clock (sounds wrong but it works), type your text.

 

Edit: If the text goes outside the circle then select it and adjust the width, it will be zero width at first with the method described above.

 

In the CUI it would look like this

^C^C(initdia)(COMMAND ".MTEXT" PAUSE "J" "MC" "L" "A" "")

[eldon]

Being a bit puzzled with the previous post (it did not work properly for me), I tried to work out a more logical way of setting the picks for the Mtext box.

 

With the Nearest Osnap, pick somewhere on the circle in the top left hand quadrant, then for the next pick, use the Perpendicular Osnap to the bottom right hand quadrant (it finds the accurate point ). Then in Mtext, set the justification as MC, and off you go. Job done