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The Text out, Editor..., and Text in 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.