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Hi there, I've recently imported text from a .DWG. In doing so the text got all out of allignment. ie:

&____AND
L___ANGLE
@______AT
#_____POUND OR NUMBER

(pretend the _____ are blank spaces!!)

Know what I mean?? Each line is a seperate sentance, or one entity, which is alligned by the left edge. I want both columns to be aligned whithout having to go in and erase 1, 2 or even add 2, 3 or 4 spaces on each line, as there is nearly 300 lines!

Any suggestions on how to explode these sentances into seperate words to allign them?

Thanks,

Brian

Hello Brian & welcome,

That is what is called "MText" in ACAD -- and we do not yet have an equivalent in v11. It is multi-line text. The only way to handle it practically would be to "explode" it all in ACAD and get a new DWG and re-import it.

Failing that, it would be less difficult to simply retype it all, IIANM.

Ok...I'll try that one...I guess I should mention I'm using version 10 of Datacad...hopefully Acad 2000 has that utility!

Thanks again

Brian

Brian -

I think what's really happening is that the font (.CHR) you are using is a proportional font, and what you want is a fixed-width font. I have had better luck with HLV_TM.CHR to have everything align properly.

Alan, you were bang on there, I tried your font and it worked perfectly.

Hopefully Datacad will create a Macro for the "MTEXT" utility.

Thanks to everyone for the response.

...Failing that, it would be less difficult to simply retype it all, IIANM.

IIANM?? What's this one mean?

Hi Josh:

If I am not mistaken.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/