Set rotation

With this command you can select the rotation that should be used for the texts that you will enter into the drawing sheet further on. You specify an angle of rotation expressed in degrees.

•0 (zero) means conventional, horizontally oriented text.

•90 degrees means conventional, vertically oriented text.

•180 degrees means – in a corresponding way – a text turned upside down.

•270 degrees is a vertically oriented text that is written from top to bottom.

Text out

These three commands can be used together. They are intended among other things for the situation in which you have a text made up with conventional AutoCAD text, which means that every single row of text is a single object. In cases like that it is difficult to edit in a way that words are displaced between the rows. This will be facilitated by these three commands. Do this the following way:

First select Text out. Select the entire text, line by line, by picking the lines one by one. Press <RETURN> when all text lines have been selected. Then select the Editor... command. Notepad will then start and you can edit the entire text with all its lines. When you are ready with the editing, please select Exit in the File pull-down menu of Notepad. The question if you wish to save your changes should of course be answered with Yes.

When you return to the drawing environment of cadett ELSA you select the Text in command. You will then receive a question whether you wish to have the text that was marked with the Text out command replaced with the text that you have edited in Notepad, in other words if you wish to transfer the changes made in Notepad to the drawing sheet. Answer Yes. The editing you have done is then transferred to the drawing sheet.

Please note, that only existing lines of text can be changed in this way. You cannot make the text longer in the sense that the number of text lines increase.

If you select Text in, without first selecting Text out, it is possible to fetch a text from an arbitrary text file. A question of the name of the file will appear. Thereafter you must indicate the insertion point of the text, or the justification of the text followed by the insertion point. After that you define the text height and finally the distance between the rows. The text then appears as ordinary AutoCAD text in the drawing sheet.

Editor…

Text in

Single line text 1.8 mm left

16 different combinations of text heights and text justifications are available for single line text here. Four text heights and four text justifications are combined to a total of 16 alternatives.

•The text heights are 1.8, 2.5, 3.5 and 5 mm.

•The text justifications are Left, Right, Centre and Middle.

The difference between Centre and Middle is the location of the insertion point. For the centred text the insertion point is vertically situated in the lower edge and horizontally in the middle. The insertion point for middle adjusted text is in the middle of the text both vertically and horizontally.

You use these 16 commands to write one line of text at a time. The commands are repeating. You exit by pressing the <RETURN> button.

•First select one of the mentioned commands.  You will be asked to pick the insertion point. Then you type the text.

•When you have done that and pressed <RETURN> in the end of the line, the command is repeated and you can pick a new insertion point.

The text lines will be placed in text layers TXT18, TXT25, TXT35 or TXT50, depending on the text height.

When the command is repeated you can exit it by pressing <RETURN> or <ESC>. Regardless of how you exit the command, you will return to the layer where you were before you started to type text.

Single line text 1.8 mm right

Single line text 1.8 mm centre

Single line text 1.8 mm midpoint

Single line text 2.5 mm left

Single line text 2.5 mm right

Single line text 2.5 mm centre

Single line text 2.5 mm midpoint

Single line text 3.5 mm left

Single line text 3.5 mm right

Single line text 3.5 mm centre

Single line text 3.5 mm midpoint

Single line text 5.0 mm left

Single line text 5.0 mm right

Single line text 5.0 mm centre

Single line text 5.0 mm midpoint

Dtext (AutoCAD Direct Text)

The Dtext command is used for conventional AutoCAD text in multiple lines.

Dtext is a standard AutoCAD command to type text. It is not altered in cadett ELSA. This means, among other things, that there is no automatic layer selection. The text is placed in the layer that is active when you select the command.

When you have written a line of text and then pressed <RETURN>, the command proceeds with the next line. To end the text you will have to press the <RETURN> button twice.

Still this command produces ordinary AutoCAD text objects; i.e. each line of text is a separate object.

When you use the Dtext command you have to select a proper text layer yourself. You should use one of the layers TXT18, TXT25, TXT35, or TXT50, depending on the text height. Do not forget to return to layer 0 (zero) to proceed with electrical lines and symbols.

Rtext (cadett ELSA Extended Text)

A drawback with the Dtext command is that it does not provide any possibility to specify the distance between the lines of text. For that reason, another command has been added in cadett ELSA. It is called Rtext and it works in a similar way as Dtext, but with the additional possibility to specify the distance between the lines. In other respects it works in a similar way as Dtext, with the difference that after you have specified the text height you will get a question about the distance between lines.

Mtext (Multiline Text)

Mtext is short for “multiline text”. It provides almost word-processor-like functionality within AutoCAD.

After selecting the Mtext command you specify a window by picking two opposite corners. In this window the text will be located. A special toolbar will appear with which you can manage the text. The toolbar is named Text Formatting.

In the toolbar you will able to select a suitable text font. Not only AutoCAD text fonts are available, but also Windows standard fonts, like TrueType fonts. You can select text height, bold, italic, underline etc.

You enter the text in the text field that you have specified.

This command does not always provide true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) but something close. This means that you will be able to see approximately how the text will look like in the drawing sheet. Line break is carried out automatically.

You can vary your text by altering font, text height and by using several text attributes like bold or underline and with several different colours. When you click OK button, the text is inserted into the drawing sheet.

An Mtext object differs from ordinary AutoCAD text objects. The entire volume of text, which may consist of several lines, is made up of a single AutoCAD object. You might notice this fact if you, for instance, make use of the Move command to move the text or the Erase command to delete it.

Please note that special limitations apply to translations of Mtext objects.

Attext (Attribute Extraction)

The standard AutoCAD ATTEXT legacy command.

Attedit

Standard AutoCAD –ATTEDIT command, giving the possibility to edit multiple attributes at a time, either one by one or all at once.