Is it possible to change the width factor wth MTEXT

[Andy G]

At the moment I am working on a long section for work i want to change the width factor of some text so it will fit in the datum, I am using MTEXT. Can anyone help??

 

Cheers

[Guest Alan Cullen]

If you have rows of chainages or levels, you really should be using single line text. That way you can use a lisp routine (CHTEXT.LSP) to change the width factor of all selected text.

 

Say the base text has a width factor of 1, with CHTEXT you can change (along with a lot of other things) the width factor to 0.8 or whatever to suit.

[JBullseye74]

yup... just use single line text. You can just explode your Multi Line text to get it single line then use Express Tool - TEXT FIT.

[JessB]

You can create a new text style with a smaller width factor and assign that to the mtext. That should do it without resorting to exploding the text & using single line text.

 

hth

[davies65]

In acad2006 theres a button on the right in the mtext formatting panel to control the text width.

[starodub]

in autocad 2005 you may explode mtext object to make it single string text, after exploding it's possible to edit width factor in properties window

[marian spitza]

what if I don' want to explode my mtext to text, how do I match the width of my mtext?

[lpseifert]

What if you take a look here

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=37230&page=2&highlight=MATCH+TEXT