I would like to emphasize something you mention in the paragrah below fig 2.
I see it happen all the time: It’s a classic beginners error to change the “standard” text style instead of making a new style… (although “professionals” do it too…)
No way around it: you WILL get problems when you work like that since your “standard” is not the same “standard” somebody else is using. You WILL loose settings on both sides.
The same goes for any style (dimension, table, multiline…)

I disagree with Bart. The beauty of the Standard style is just that — when you get a file from somewhere, to change it to your liking or house style, simply change the Standard association and it’s done. For example, if a client has done a drawing where all the dims and notes are done in Standard, and Standard is associated with Romantic Simplex (ROMANS), Then to fix this to International standards, all you would have to do is change the association from Romans to ISOCPEUR. Simple. Who still uses the ugly TXT style? Yuk! Romans was the popular standard for years because it was the nearest to the ISO — especially when you thinned it down by changing the text width to 85 per cent or so. ISOCP came out to meet demand around the non-American world, but now we have the proper font, there really is no need now to use anything else (except for logos etc.) Remember, just because you can do it in ACAD, doesn’t mean that you SHOULD do it!

THE classic beginners’ mistake here is actually to assign (to standard or a self-named style) a font that is not very common. This simply means that when someone else opens the file, not having the font means that ACAD will use what it can find instead (per the fontalt setting).

Erhan Toker didn’t go into standards, nor did he mention legibility when drawings are printed at different scales, or the new annotation features that illustrate why ISOCPEUR was invented in the first place.

Erhan could have mentioned the superb advantages of MTEXT over the others that dinosaurs insist on using — such as the ability to number notes automatically, insert degrees and diameter symbols without knowing the codes, and the wonderful inserting of the cubed three and squared two — goodbye to the sqm and m2 that DTEXT and TEXT offer!

MTEXT is the only real way to go — easy alignment, easy to change, easy to move around, heck — even a word in the middle of a line can be made bold or have its height increased! You can also paste a paragraph from a text editor like Windows Notepad — or even from Word or Excel.

Question…
AutoCAD 2008: How do you change the default settings. Each time I bring this up on the screen, the text box is very large. When I zoom in the tex box changes size, and even test size is incorrect. something is wrong with a setting I’m sure.

Hank

Is it possible to write text into a drawing without having to be prompted with the text. I want to be able to write down the commands in word or excel or something and paste them into the command window. For example:
text 0,0 90 “my text”
as soon as the command for the 90 degree is finished the text marker comes on point 0,0 and a have to write the text down.
Sorry for my english, but do you understand what im trying to say?

Thanks alot… you’ve help me alot!

Hi again. Is there some command that can be written down in the command window that reprecents the “enter” button. I want to be able to paste a whole line in the command window and execute an -insert command. For example

-INSERT SU222 1873,533141.086481896 1 1 0
where su222 is the block name.

usually when doing simular things with “-text” or “line” a “space” will work as an “enter”, but when working with the “insert block” command the name of the block can be more than one word and in my case AutoCAD takes it as “SU222 1873,533141.086481896 1 1 0″ is the name of the block.

Hello,

I have a problem with the text style.
I’ve made on STANDARD Times New Roman, and I want to put all my multiline texts to another style (wich is arial), but my texts doesn’t change from times new roman into arial (the style from Standard to the new one is changed, but the fonts aren’t). I don’t want to take every text and change it manualy. What I’m doing wrong ?

Thanks

Select all the text in your drawing you want changed. Goto the properties dialog box and change the style to standard. Then whenever you change the standard the fonts will change that have been set to standard

one more thing……You can use the quick select in the upper right hand corner of the properties box to pick entire drawing, object type = all the mtext = properties “style” and choose arial or whatever you are looking for and it will select all the text that meets that specification. Then simply change the text style to standard.

Question,
I have i problem with text styles in AutoCAD.
I have a text style named Text1, with the font name Arial.
When this drawing is opened in other computers in the network the font style changes to Archsyl. Then when i reopen in mu computer i have to go back to text style and change the font from Archstyl to Arial again.
What can i do to avoid all those changes?
Thank You

has anyone come across the problem of the text “isocp” being smaller than the actual stated text height.
i.e. when inserting text at a height of 3.5mm the true height of the text is approx. 3.15mm

Fredwah,
I have been trying to solve the same problem and this is the only link on the net I’ve found that even mentions it. isocp.shx seems to have an actual font height of exactly .9 times the text height setting. I’ve created a bunch of attributes in this font but when they get inserted into a drawing with different font styles the size goes wacky. Now I’m wondering if just this particular font is messed up or if it is a more general problem.

Hi,
I have number of dtext and i want to add “m2″ on each text at one time. is it possibel?
 
Thanks you,