Differentiate text entities from mtext entities

[samirjoshi]

Hi all,

We have standard practice of using only Mtext in the drawing. Is there any method by which we can identify Text entities from Mtext entity. Something like tblsearch or ...... I don't know ! ! !

Regards.

Samir.

[Richard McDonald]

I would research Qselect It is a very useful tool when it comes to bring drawings in line with standards.

Regards

[jaberwok]

For a quick initial check just window the entire drawing, go to the properties palette and click the item type list at the top to see if there are any text objects.

edit: if TEXT doesn't appear in the list, the drawing is "clean".

[heinsite]

For a quick initial check just window the entire drawing, go to the properties palette and click the item type list at the top to see if there are any text objects.

edit: if TEXT doesn't appear in the list, the drawing is "clean".

Instead of Windowing you can also Ctrl-A the entire drawing to select everything. Then use the pull down at the top of the Properties palette to see what types of objects you have. If you want to get all Text objects in a new selection set (assuming you found some), click the QSelect icon in the upper right corner of the Properties palette. In the Quick Select dialog that comes up select Text for the Object type. For the Operator choose Select all (this is a just in case idea - you don't know for sure but things might be scattered on different layers or colors or whatever). And finally, at the bottom of the Quick Select dialog for the How to Apply, use the "Include in new selection set". When you click OK the only things in your drawing that will be selected will be just Text objects.

From this point you can deal with them any way you like... probably running TXT2MTXT, or something like it and standardizing layers, styles, etc.

Dave.

[samirjoshi]

Hi all,

We have standard practice of using only Mtext in the drawing. Is there any method by which we can identify Text entities from Mtext entity. Something like tblsearch or ...... I don't know ! ! !

Regards.

Samir.

Thanks to all for suggestions.
I have developed an lsp file for identifying texts with fonts and heights, not matching to our standard.
I have used tblsearch for extracting font name from text entities. This lisp identifies all undesirable texts and changes their color. I am looking for something same which I can include in the same lsp, so that user runs only one command and finds all types of errors in the texts of any drawing.

Regards.