GeoTools->Text Tools

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The Text tools forms a set of commands that are useful in the processing of text and mtext objects.




Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Präfix/Suffix an Text anhängen
Command line:  GT_AD_PFSF
This command is discontinued. Please see the GT_MODTXT command instead to provide this functionality.

Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Schriftarten der Zeichnung auflisten 
Command line: GT_DWGFONTS 

The GT_DWGFONTS command is used to write to a text file all the font files used by the current drawing. This information can be complied just before shipping the drawing to a client or to another location so that the recipient can read the drawing properly without missing any dependent font files.
The text file is created in the same directory as the drawing with the name ~DrawingName~.Fon".

Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Text in Box einschließen 
Command line: GT_ENCLOSE  

GT_ENCLOSE is used to surround selected TEXT and MTEXT objects within either a circle, box or slot. The box is created as a 3DFACE with its Z values just under the TEXT or MTEXT. So, this technique can be used to hide the objects under the TEXT or MTEXT when the drawing is plotted. The "Hide" option must be turned on to achieve this. 



Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Textobjekte ausrichten
Command line: GT_T_ALIGN 


The TX_T_ALIGN command aligns selected TEXT objects either to a horizontal, vertical or inclined datum line. You must specify the alignment line by picking a single point in the case of a horizontal or vertical line and by picking two points in the case of an inclined datum. Fitted and Aligned text justifications cannot be aligned using this method. All other types of text objects can be aligned.


Align Text to a reference



Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Textobjekte zu Linie ausrichten
Command line: GT_T_ALIGN1


The T_ALIGN1 command aligns selected TEXT objects to an AutoCAD LINE object. This is a quick means to align text so that their rotation angle is the same as that of the selected reference line object.


Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Art ändern 
Command line: GT_CHCASE 


The GT_CHCASE command allows changing the case (Capitalization) of Text, MText and block attributes. Text strings can be converted to upper, lower or mixed case with an additional option of using a text translation table.




What to process:

Text / MText: Choosing this option processes the text and mtext objects only.

Attributes: Choosing this option processes only the attributes of as block

Select Text case:

Upper: Changes all selected text / attributes to upper case

Lower: Changes all selected text / attributes to upper case

Mixed (Title) case: Changes all selected text / attributes to mixed case. Mixed case capitalized the first alphabet of each word. For example, the string "THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CENTER" would become "The National Geographic Center".

Options:

Use translation dictionary: Check this option to use a translation dictionary. Using a translation dictionary, you can replace text strings completely with alternative text. Think of this as a global and variable text search and replace. All strings contained in this text file will be substituted "as-is" without applying any case conversion logic. Typically, you would add in all the abbreviations and exceptions to the conversion into this text file. This is a simple comma delimited text file, which contains the original string in the drawing and the replaced string separated by a comma.

Example:
LTA,Land Transport Authority
USA,USA
MCDONNALDS,McDonnalds


This would convert all strings "LTA" to "Land Transport Authority", "USA" will remain as "USA" and "MCDONNALDS" would become "McDonnalds".

Delimiter to use: Specify the delimiter to use in the translation text file.

Dictionary file: Specify the name of the dictionary file

Block parameters:

Name: Pick and choose the block name.

Attribute: Pick and choose the attribute tag name for the selected block.


Toolbar : Text Tools  
      Menu : GeoTools Text Tools Alle Texte/MTexte ändern
Command line: GT_MODTXT 


GT_MODTXT allows global editing of text and mtext properties like Justification, Style, Height and rotation angles (both absolute and relatively), increment / decrement text, set constant value etc. The required target properties can be set easily in a dialog box and a multiple selection of text objects can be made. The selected property and value is applied to all objects in the selection set. 

Note: The Justification property is not applicable to MTEXT objects.

GT_MODTXT Tutorial

Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Text zeichnen (laufende Nummern)
Command line: GT_TC 

The GT_TC command can be used to quickly create multiple text objects with sequential (running) numbers. It can also create multiple block insertions with sequential (running) attribute values. For instance, if you want to create a number of electric poles or water meter joints whose attributes have to be sequentially incremented, simply define your block with the necessary attributes and run GT_TC specifying the block name and attribute to use. Additionally, you can set prefixes and suffixes for both text and block objects.

All text properties like counter values, increment, format width, prefix, suffix, text height, rotation angle and justification can be set as defaults during the command, leaving only the insertion point to be specified for each text or block insertion. 

This command can also be used to update existing text or block objects with the current text parameters. i.e, if there is a text or block object at the picked insertion point, it can be automatically updated with the new text value.

Text Height

Defines the height of the text.

Rotation Angle
Defines the rotation angle of the text.

Starting Value
Defines the starting value to use for the next text or block attribute 

Format width
Defines the width of the numeric text. For example, if the starting value is specified as 1 and the Format width is specified as 3, the number will be written as 001 i.e each number will have at least three digits in them. The blank spaces will be padded with 0's.

Value Increment
Type the integer amount by which each consecutive insertion should be incremented.

Prefix
Enter the prefix that should be appended before each text string

Suffix
Enter the suffix that should be appended after each text string

Update underlying object, if present
If this box is checked, text counter will check if there is a counter object at the point of pick within the search distance (see below). If an object is found, it is updated with the current text counter value else a new object is placed at that location. This makes it easy for the text counter to be applied on objects that have already been placed. For instance, if a number of electric poles have already been placed and you want only to number their attributes sequentially, you can check this option and proceed to pick the poles in the order that you wish.

Search distance for underlying object
Defines the amount (in AutoCAD units) to search around the picked point for any existing counter object.

Counter object to create
Two types of counter objects can be created. Text or Blocks (with attributes) .If a block is chosen as the counter object, you must also specify the attribute name to be used. Blocks that do not contain attributes will not be listed in the dialog box.

Select block
Drop-down list to select the blocks defined in the current drawing document.

Select counter attribute
Drop-down list to select the attributes defined for the currently selected block.

Insert in existing series
Clicking on this button you can insert a new counter text in an existing series of text objects and automatically update all the other texts in the series which match the criteria. For example, if you have a existing text series like A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and so on, you can insert a new text object called A3 and the program will automatically renumber all existing text objects greater that the picked value , like A3 becomes A4 and A4 becomes A5 and so on.

GT_TC Tutorial


See Also: GT_MT


Toolbar : Text Tools  
      Menu : GeoTools Text Tools Mehrfache Texteinfügungen
Command line: GT_MT


This is a quick text insertion command that eliminates the mundane text options like height, rotation angle, justification etc each time you insert the text. It prompts for text height and rotation angle only at the beginning and inserts all the text with specified height, rotation angle and insertion point. The other parameters are taken from the program defaults.

Text Height
Defines the height of the text.

Rotation Angle
Defines the rotation angle of the text.

Toolbar : Text Tools  
      Menu : GeoTools Text Tools Text-Filter
Command line: GT_TXTFILTER

This command allows a selection of Text and MText objects to be filtered based on their text string value. Two method of filtering can be adopted:



Text search

Using Text search, the filtering can be done based on a wildcard pattern matching of the text string. 

Numeric Search
Using Numeric search, the text is assumed to represent numbers and hence is first internally converted to a real number and a comparison is done based on the operators specified for numeric filtering.

Example: This command can be used to select all text objects whose numeric value if greater than 100.0 or to select all text having the words "NOTES" in it.


Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Numerischen Text aufrunden 
Command line: GT_TXTROUND  


TXTROUND command is useful to round of numeric text to a specified precision. The text selected is assumed to be numeric and the converted floating point value is converted to the specified precision and displayed. 



Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Text relativ zum Drehwinkel versetzen
Command line: GT_TXTSLIDE 



The GT_TXTSLIDE command slides or moves text in a direction which is specified relative to the rotation angle of the text. This command can be used in various imaginative ways and to achieve several editing requirements. For instances, this command can be used to increase or decrease the spacing between text labels and adjoining features by moving them in a specified direction. Since the direction of movement is specified as an angle relative to the rotation angle of the text, this can be used to move the text in a 360 degrees direction by any amount specified in the slide distance. For instance, to move the text in a direction vertically above, enter the slide direction as 90 degs.

See Also: GT_MODTXT
 

Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Text in Datei schreiben
Command line: GT_TXT2FILE



GT_TXT2FILE writes selected TEXT and MTEXT objects into an ASCII TEXT file.

File: Specify the output file-name here.

Sort Order / Type: Specify the text sort order in output text file.

Numeric: Sorts text strings after converting them into their numeric values.
Character: Sort text strings as characters.
Unsorted: Does not sort text strings.

Write unique text strings only: Checking this option causes only unique text strings to be written in the text file.



Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Mehrfaches ändern von Text
Command line: GT_TXTEDIT  


GT_TXTEDIT  is used for copying Multiple text selected from the drawing to Notepad text editor, where in we can make changes in the required text easily. And after  making changes when you save and close the notepad editor the same change are updated in the drawing.

GT_TXTEDIT Tutorial



Toolbar : Text Tools
      Menu : GeoTools Text Tools Text unterstreichen
Command line:  GT_UND_LINE  




GT_UND_LINE is a quick way to add or remove underlining from selected TEXT. 


Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Text in MText vereinigen 
Command line: GT_CONS_TXT

This command allows to pick a number of text objects in order and creates a single MText object out of all of them.

Prompts:
Select TEXT [from top to bottom sequence]: (do so)
Select TEXT [from top to bottom sequence]: (do so)
Select TEXT [from top to bottom sequence]: (do so)
Select TEXT [from top to bottom sequence]: (do so)
Select TEXT [from top to bottom sequence]: (do so)
Select TEXT [from top to bottom sequence]: ENTER


Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Zoom auf Text
Command line: GT_ZOOMTXT or GT_ZT




GT_ZOOMTXT is a tool for text search and replace.

Search embedded text: Enables or disables checking of embedded parts of text or attribute strings.

Case sensitive: Enables or disables case sensitive text handling.

Search Block Attributes also: Enables or disables search block attribute text.

Replace searched TEXT: If enabled, the replace option is invoked. The search text string is then replaced with the replace text string according to the options set above.

Interactive Replace (confirm each replace):
If enabled, each replace operation will seek confirmation before proceeding. This causes the currently processing text string to be zoomed into and allows it to be confirmed before replacing. The zooming is done at the current viewport zoom scale. If you need to see through a text clearly in congested drawings, you may need to zoom deep enough before starting this command.

Search for: Enter text string to search for.

Replace with: Enter text string to replace searched string.

See Also: GT_SRCHBLK4TXT


Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Suche Block nach Text
Command line: GT_SRCHBLK4TXT



The SRCHBLK4TXT command searches block definitions for embedded text strings and lists all blocks matching the given text string specifications.

Text String to search: Enter the text string to search here. Wildcards are accepted.

Case sensitive: Checking this option causes the search to be case-sensitive.

See Also: GT_ZOOMTXT


Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Texte zu Objektdaten umwandeln
Command line: GT_TXT2OD 
See Under AutoDesk Map Tools


Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Texte in Blockattribute überführen
Command line: GT_TXT2ATT
See Under Blöcke Tools

Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Lange Texte in Einzelelemente umbrechen
Command line:GT_SPLITTEXT

The GT_SPLITTEXT command is used to split a long line of text or Mtext string into a number of smaller text strings based on a delimiter. So, if you have a text string that looks like: "The,Quick,Brown,Fox,Jumps,Over,The,Lazy,Dog" and if the comma character "," is specified as the delimiter, this command will create individual text strings like "The" "Quick" "Brown" "Fox" "Jumps" "Over" "The" "Lazy" "Dog" at almost the same insertion point locations as where the original string was in the combined string.

Delimiter for string splitting: Enter the delimiter to be used for splitting text strings.


Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Taext an Kurve erzeugen
Command line: GT_CURVETEXT 


This command allows you to write text strings along a curve




Text Offset from line: Text is placed at the specified offset from the curve

Text Spacing between each character
: Enter the spacing required between each character of the string

Text Spacing between each word
: Enter the spacing required between each word

Annotation text height
: Enter the text height here

Annotation interval
: Enter the spacing at which the text string should repeat itself
 
Picked Point:
Choosing this option causes text to be placed from the picked point onwards

Automatic
: Choosing this option causes text to be placed automatically at the specified annotation interval along the curve

Annotation Layer
: Choose the layer in which you want the text to be placed


Toolbar : Text Tools  
      Menu : GeoTools Text Tools Textobjekte auseinanderrücken
Command line: GT_UNCLUTTER  


The GT_UNCLUTTER command is used to automatically move overlapping text objects around and unclutter the drawing.

The program uses a compute-intensive (slow execution) but result producing algorithm to actually do a trial-and-error by moving the overlapping text around in all or any of the four directions, namely Up, Down, Left and Right or in two-direction combinations like Left-Right and Up-Down. By doing so, when it detects a clear space it place the text there.

Label movement direction

In this section, you specify the direction in which the program must scan to look for available free space to place the labels.

All: Check this option to scan for label space in all four directions around the pick points. The four directions are Up, Down, Left and Right.
Left: Check this option to scan for label space only to the left of the picked point.
Right: Check this option to scan for label space only to the right of the picked point.
Up: Check this option to scan for label space only in the direction above the picked point.
Down: Check this option to scan for label space only in the direction below the picked point.

As the names suggest, selecting the directions UpDown, LeftRight, Rotate Clockwise, Rotate Counter-Clockwise, Rotate Both will scan the drawing in two directions together.

Other parameters

Movement increment:
Specify how much distance to move in the specified direction during each new check for free label space.
Display leaders: Checking this box causes the annotation to be displayed with leaders.


Toolbar : Text Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Create text aligned to a curve. 
Command line: GT_EASYTEXT


The GT_EASYTEXT command helps to place text strings (labels) along a curve like polylines, arc, splines etc. This is not a curved text creator tool. Instead it just places text strings at an angle which is pre-set and aligned along the slope of the curve at the picked point on the curve.

Toolbar : Text Tools   
     
Menu : GeoTools Text
Tools Create Date/Drawing Stamp.
Command line: GT_DATESTAMP  
The GT_DATESTAMP command is used for inserting current system date and current drawing file name along with its file path.


What stamp to create?

Date Stamp:
Selecting this option allows to insert current system date in the drawing.
Drawing Stamp: Selecting this option allows to insert current file name in the drawing.

DateStamp Format: Allows to select the format in which date will be inserted.
Show path in drawing name: Checking this box includes the complete file path along with the file name while inserting the Drawing Stamp

Text Height:
Enter the required text height for date or drawing stamp.

 

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