Set-up width of MText in MLeader Style

[pbrumberg]

Is it possible to set up an mleader style which will allow you to choose the width of your mtext, similar to the way you could with the qleader?

[CADDmanVA]

Is it possible to set up an mleader style which will allow you to choose the width of your mtext, similar to the way you could with the qleader?
Not that I'm aware of, sorry. You could use the filter selection tool to bulk change the width after inserting them. That's what I usually do when I have that situation.

[pbrumberg]

That's very unfortunate. It seems like an extra step beyond the old qleader method where you would specify the width of the mtext box as part of the procedure for drafting the qleader. This seems like something that would have been easy enough for Autodesk to include in the mleader. Maybe in a future release??

[sinc]

Maybe if a lot of people start bugging them.

Civil-3D labels have the same problem, and they've been that way for several years now. It's annoying.

[n.g]

You can work around it by changing the default text. Change the width of the default text and type something, anything in there. Save it and then go back and edit the text again, delete the text but leave the width. The width will not change with the annotative scale unfortunately.

[pbrumberg]

That's a start, thanks Boffin. I wonder if there's a way I could work it into a lisp routine to change the text box width based on pick points. I'll have to look into it.

[sinc]

You can work around it by changing the default text. Change the width of the default text and type something, anything in there. Save it and then go back and edit the text again, delete the text but leave the width. The width will not change with the annotative scale unfortunately.

Are you talking about the width of the Text Style?

I thought this post was about the width of the Text Box (which controls line wrap), not the individual characters...

Not that it matters much. Both things present a problem.

I often use a similar trick to get different-sized text in the same Civil-3D label. In a standard MTEXT, I will create text of various sizes, then copy and paste the text into a Civil-3D label. The text size formatting goes along for the ride, and works inside the Civil-3D label, yielding a C3D label with multiple text sizes. It's also possible to use two different components inside the label and get a similar effect, but things like centering and background mask work differently for that setup. Sometimes it's nicer to have a single component with multiple text sizes, rather than multiple components with one component for each text size.

[pbrumberg]

The original question was about the width of the text box, not the text width factor. I think Boffin was answering the correct question, just using the wrong nomenclature when referring to "text width".