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Frequent contributor Matt Sibum is back with a selection-based find-and-replace routine for text and mtext in AutoCAD. His routine prompts you to select a single text or mtext obje...  Read more

Tip#: 4188
Author: Matt Sibum
Rename File To: matchtextall.lsp
Published on: 22-Sep-2013
Downloads: 204
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Civil designer Sam J. Lucido discusses using AutoCAD's Find command to help fix errors in your drawing annotations.

"The Find command can replace incorrectly spe...  Read more

Tip#: 3869
Author: Samuel Lucido
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 23-Apr-2012
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Raymond Rizkallah shares with us two routines he wrote to find and select annotative objects in a drawing.

"FIND-ANNO.LSP is a utility to filter annotative objects...  Read more

Tip#: 3389
Author: Raymond Rizkallah
Rename File To: FIND-ANNO.LSP
Published on: 12-Apr-2010
Downloads: 788
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Designer Robert Zipprich sends a method to deal with text that you can’t see or even select. "The Burst command from the Express Tools family (Explode Attributes to Text) has a bug that ...  Read more

Tip#: 3205
Author: Robert Zipprich
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 31-May-2009
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
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Along those same lines is Remove Empty Strings (Tip #2131). The empty strings result from users backspacing out text (and mtext) objects instead of deleting the text objects. Once loaded into AutoC...  Read more

Tip#: 2131
Author: Mark Newman
Rename File To: Tip2131: NullText.lsp
Published on: 01-Jul-2006
Downloads: 762
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Adjust Text for All Drawings in a Directory
Our last tip of the month is another monster cool routine from Andrzej Gumula in Poland. Adjust Text for All Drawings in a Directory (Tip #2028) de...  Read more

Tip#: 2028
Author: Andrzej Gumula
Rename File To: Tip2028: Replace Text In Dwgs.lsp**
Published on: 01-Apr-2005
Downloads: 1054
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

FTXT.LSP, finds all text or mtext entities that contasin a specified string of text in a drawing.

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Tip#: 1707
Author: Oleg Khenson
Rename File To: Tip1707: FTXT.LSP
Published on: 01-May-2001
Downloads: 527
Rating:
3
  Rated by 1 users

an AutoLISP routine and dialog box that searches a drawing for a user-specified text string and replaces all occurrences with another text string

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Tip#: 1327
Author: Frances Davey
Rename File To: TIP1327A.LSP: GLOTEXT.LSP, TIP1327B.DCL: GLOTEXT.DCL
Published on: 01-May-1997
Downloads: 436
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

an AutoLISP routine that highlights any string of text that contains a designated text string.

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Tip#: 1272
Author: Rick Monyer
Rename File To: TIP1272.LSP: FTX.LSP
Published on: 01-Nov-1996
Downloads: 290
Rating:
1
  Rated by 1 users

routine that finds a particular text string in a crowded drawing.

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Tip#: 1014
Author: Jeffrey Foster Jr.
Rename File To: TIP1014 ZOOM2TXT.LSP
Published on: 01-Aug-1994
Downloads: 287
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users