![]() Currently I am happy with the editor and a lot of changes have taken place over the last few releases to make it more useful including complete control over your text via the ribbon. Whether this is an advantage over the AutoCAD default editor is up to the user. Upon creating a new MTEXT object or editing any existing MTEXT object, instead of the AutoCAD text editor, I can now create my text items via the Notepad interface, save it and exit the editor, entering and formatting the text as shown below: I typed inĬ:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad \notepad .exe In the following example, I used Notepad , a free open source code editor. Any text editor you choose must be able to save in ASCII format. You can then enter the path and location of your favorite text editor to use in place of the normal MTEXT editor. You will be prompted by:Įnter new value for MTEXTED, or. To enter into the alternate text edit mode, you type the command MTEXTED in the command line. Did you know there was an alternate way to edit your MTEXT objects without using the internal text editor?įor the greatest control over the appearance and formatting of your MTEXT objects, you can use an alternate text editing application such as Windows Notepad or Notepad to edit your text, applying formatting codes to your edits, and importing the resulting text back into AutoCAD.Īutodesk provides many formatting codes to control the attributes of your text including height, width, color, alignment, underline, font and more. ![]()
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