rock1 Posted September 5, 2012 Posted September 5, 2012 hi im using 2008 autocad . whenever i make an attribute using ATT command. it's forced as uppercase. how can i use lower case letters? Quote
SLW210 Posted September 5, 2012 Posted September 5, 2012 The TAG will automatically change to uppercase, is this what you refer? Please post some examples. Quote
rock1 Posted September 7, 2012 Author Posted September 7, 2012 my file contain's two writing styles calib1 and calib small here's my file, try changing the letters to smallercase. also i can't write Dining Hall i would have to write [can't add spaces!] DININGHALL. EXAMPLE.dwg Quote
Dadgad Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 There is no block in this drawing. What are you trying to create the ATTRIBUTE for? Might you want to create an MTEXT or TEXT entity instead? Quote
rock1 Posted September 7, 2012 Author Posted September 7, 2012 well i'm making a plan with different rooms and they are labelled as dining hall, ktichen etc. but if i make them a block , an dmirror them the text also gets mirrored. that's why i was trying to use attributes feature here. actuallly i was double clicking on attribute. didn't go to properties. Quote
Dadgad Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 What is shown in my image is the QUICK PROPERTIES palette. I don't see any advantage to not using MTEXT, which you can mirror, without incident, if you center justify them. Quote
rock1 Posted September 7, 2012 Author Posted September 7, 2012 What is shown in my image is the QUICK PROPERTIES palette. I don't see any advantage to not using MTEXT, which you can mirror, without incident, if you center justify them. but if i make a block containing mtext. the text would also get laterally inverted isn't it? im using 2008 new block.dwg Quote
Dadgad Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 You are correct about that, now that I see what you are trying to do. If you enter ATT at the commandline, and hover your cursor over the Attribute Tag input area, as outlined in red, the hover tooltip will explain the issue to you. The limitations described are only for the attribute tag, not for the content of the attribute. Quote
Dadgad Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 When defining the ATTRIBUTE TAG, spaces are not allowed, and all letters are capitalized. When you fill in the actual ATTRIBUTE field you can include spaces, and lower case letters. Quote
SLW210 Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 See if this CREATE ATTRIBUTES TUTORIAL helps. And HERE Quote
rock1 Posted September 10, 2012 Author Posted September 10, 2012 one thing i can't understand. if i edit the properties of attribute, i can write in whatever way i want. however if the same thing is double clicked and the text has spaces. autocad says you can't have spaces!! Quote
Dadgad Posted September 10, 2012 Posted September 10, 2012 The TAG is not the PROPERTY, it is just a name, a placeholder, if you will. The Prompt is where it tries to steer you to make an appropriate entry, YOUR FIRST PET'S NAME WAS? The actual VALUE which you will assign to the PROPERTY overwrites the DEFAULT value. If you don't overwrite it, then it will display the contents of the Default box. The terminology is a bit strange, but it is what it is. Quote
SLW210 Posted September 10, 2012 Posted September 10, 2012 Did you look at the tutorials I linked? Quote
Dadgad Posted September 10, 2012 Posted September 10, 2012 I did! And they were right on the mark! Quote
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