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Converting text to MTEXT

Converting text to MTEXT - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Converting text to MTEXT

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD Tip & Trick. What we're gonna look at now is another one of my favorite AutoCAD Express tools, and it's Convert Text to MTEXT, to multiline text. Now, you'll notice, we've got a new drawing open for you. It's called Convert Text to MTEXT.dwg. As usual, you can download that from the Library to follow along with this particular tip and tricks video. There's nothing too complicated in this particular file, just three pieces of singleline text on the layer zero. So, if I hover over one of these bits of text right now, you'll see there that it's just a piece of text on layer zero. That's it. But they're unevenly spaced and they are three individual bits of singleline text. What I want to do is convert those three bits of singleline text to a piece of multiline text, or MTEXT, as it's known. Now, in the Express Tools tab on the ribbon, you're in the Text panel and you're selecting Convert to MTEXT. And you can see the command there is TXT, Text to…

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