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    Summary: Automatically set layer of text to specified layer!

    Description: When Mtext is selected automatically set it to a specified layer, such as S-Text in my case.

    Product and Feature: AutoCAD Architecture - AEC Dimensions

    Submitted By: Ralph Stephens on 10/22/2014


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    Default Re: Text layer

    Quote Originally Posted by Wish List System View Post
    Summary: Automatically set layer of text to specified layer!

    Description: When Mtext is selected automatically set it to a specified layer, such as S-Text in my case.

    Product and Feature: AutoCAD Architecture - AEC Dimensions

    Submitted By: Ralph Stephens on 10/22/2014
    I simple Visual LISP Command Reactor can do this already.
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    Default Re: Text layer

    You can create a Tool Palette tool that will allow you to start the MText command with a layer key. That tool can then be referenced by a ribbon tool, if you want.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dkoch View Post
    You can create a Tool Palette tool that will allow you to start the MText command with a layer key. That tool can then be referenced by a ribbon tool, if you want.
    ... Just not from Command Line; for completeness.
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    Default Re: Text layer

    Quote Originally Posted by BlackBox View Post
    ... Just not from Command Line; for completeness.
    True. It is possible to access layer keys from AutoLISP, so you could write a bit of code that sets the layer and then runs the MText command. I had done that in the past, but do recall some issues with being able to reset the layer at the end, since the routine only started the MText command, and then ended, so as not to have to funnel user input through the LISP routine. We just lived with it not restoring the old layer.

    Using a reactor avoids all of those issues; I am just leery of reactor programs, because a poorly written one can really mess up a file/workflow.

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    Text layer

    Summary: Automatically set layer of text to specified layer!

    Description: When Mtext is selected automatically set it to a specified layer, such as S-Text in my case.

    Product and Feature: AutoCAD Architecture - AEC Dimensions

    Submitted By: Ralph Stephens on 10/22/2014


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