Center Line and Other symbols

[Chirag Mistry]

If using MText, right click in the text window and scroll down to
Symbols>Center Line.

Word of caution, if you share your cad files and they use 2004 without the
tool palette extension, or an older version(2002, 2000i, 2000, etc.), they
will see a ? instead of the symbol. They need to install/use the newer font
file (i.e. if you use romans.shx they need to replace it with your copy).

[Chirag Mistry]

Now to go one step ahead, I was trying to create a toolbar button for this using the following command,

^C^C-layer;m;Note;c;green;Note;;-mtext;\s;test;\u+2104;;

Since a "\" means pause for user input, it doe not recognize "\u+2104" as user input, any clue how to fix this?

Thanks
Chirag

[cwade]

You first need to define a custom LISP routine:

(defun c:mts ()
(setq mtsa (getpoint "Please select an insertion point for the text."))
(command "-mtext" mtsa "@10,10" "test" "\\U+2104" "")
(setq mtsa T)
)

Save this as MTS.LSP

The Button Code should look something like:

^C^C-layer;m;Note;c;green;Note;;(if (not c:mts)(load "H:/0ACAD Support/LISP/mts.lsp")) (c:mts)

Replace H:/0ACAD Support/LISP/ with whatever path you have saved mts.lsp to.

Should do the trick

[Glen_Johnston]

Here is a routine I wrote a while back that works back to R2000 for sure, possibly R14.

The "center line" symbol size will be drawn at the same size as your current Dimtxt setting.


Glen

[scwegner]

Here's another centerline routine. This one rotates and justifies the text to match the angle of the line drawn.

[mtlynn]

How come when I use those symbols the text comes out lighter than the text that is with it? I use simplex font. It actually shows up a little bolder in the mtext box, but plots lighter. I use LDD 04.