AutoCAD LT :: Creating Text Style With Background Mask
Jun 26, 2012
AutoCAD LT 2013
For some reason my qleader settings will not retain as they once did. I have used them in the past with no issues, but can't seem to get AutoCAD to remember what I want. It's a real pain.
I've tried toying with mleaders. I like them for the most part, but I can't get my text to be background masked automatically (like I can with qleader). I also will need to change my text styles as my current style scales the text size. MLeader allows me to set the scale (MLEADERSCALE) for the different scales in my drawings which is nice, but without the background mask, I'd rather use QLeader.
Any way making the text with automatic background masking? I don't mind creating a text style with background mask.....if that is possible somehow.
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Mar 22, 2012
how to manipulate the size of the wipeout for a text mask.
Simply selecting the masked text in C3D 2011 provided pick boxes at the four corners of the wipeout, making it very easy to manipulate the size of the wipeout box. I'm hoping to do the same in C3D 2012, but the wipeout seems to be treated like a block and lacks the pick boxes.A system variable maybe?
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Oct 24, 2012
I like using the edit label text in the lable styles to add additional text and information.
I can turn on / off the backroung mask for all the style but not each.
Is there a way to turn on / off the backround mask of each layout text.
I'm using civil 3d 2012 and testing 2013.
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Mar 19, 2013
PublicSharedSub CreateTextStyle(ByVal TextStyleName AsString, ByVal FontFileName AsString, ByVal OblAng AsDouble)
Dim DataB AsDatabase = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Database
Dim MyTransaction AsTransaction = DataB.TransactionManager.StartTransaction()
Try
Dim MyBlockTable AsBlockTable = MyTransaction.GetObject(DataB.BlockTableId, OpenMode.ForRead)
Dim MyBlockTableRecord AsBlockTableRecord = MyTransaction.GetObject(MyBlockTable(BlockTableRecord.ModelSpace), OpenMode.ForWrite)
Dim MyTextStyleTable AsTextStyleTable = MyTransaction.GetObject(DataB.TextStyleTableId, OpenMode.ForRead)
[code]....
and i call it from sub:
Call CreateTextStyle("330", "romans.shx", DTR(330))
but error comes up
at Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.Transaction.GetObject(ObjectId id, OpenMode mode, Boolean openErased, Boolean forceOpenOnLockedLayer)
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May 23, 2006
If you can background mask dimension text the same way you can with mtext. I know i can explode the dimension and edit the text and give it a background, but that is poor practice. I still want to keep the dimension associated.
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Feb 17, 2011
I have found where / how to apply a background mask to text (listed in the properties box when I highlight text). The list of fill colors does not include white. I was hoping to create a background mask that did not add a shaded box to a black and white print but simply blocked out the contents behind the text.
I am using 2010 LT if this makes a difference.
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Sep 13, 2010
I am just wondering how is possible to set up a Multileader style that creates text with a background mask.
I have been trying to get this feature in the Multileader style manager and I could not find it in order to avoid to set up background mask every time I create a Multileader
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Jan 18, 2012
When you click a piece of text in AutoCad and look on the properties pane, there is a 'width' variable. Why does the background mask for the text still work when the width property for the text is set to 0 or are these totally unrelated? What purpose does the width property of text actually serve (when it seemingly works fine when on 0)?
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May 29, 2009
Actually We are trying AutoCAD 2010 and i have a question about multileader i cannot find in the manual.we are used to set a bright background mask under our text (including Mtext, Qleader, Dimensions) this way the printed text can be seen much better in dark area.
Now i'm am upgrading from AutoCAD 2007 and discovering Multileader (and i cannot find the Qleader button on the ribbon) so i conclude the new "standard is multileader", this is annoying because i cannot find anywhere how to put text mask background inside text in mleader. any option available? i would like to begin to use this function, but the text background is mandatory here.
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Nov 26, 2012
I want to programatically create a text style in the current database based on a font located in the AutoCAD /fonts folder. After that, I want to assign that text style to a newly created DBText.
I am close but can't quite get it. Let's see what I have:
I still got errors and left it as comment.
using (Transaction newTransaction = newDoc.Database.TransactionManager.StartTransaction()){ TextStyleTable newTextStyleTable = newTransaction.GetObject(newDoc.Database.TextStyleTableId, OpenMode.ForRead) as TextStyleTable; if (!newTextStyleTable.Has("ROMANS")) //The TextStyle is currently not in the database { newTextStyleTable.UpgradeOpen(); newTextStyleTableRecord = new TextStyleTableRecord(); newTextStyleTableRecord.FileName = "romans.shx";
[code].........
I get key not found error. Do i have to lock the document?
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Nov 15, 2011
I would like to add a background mask to my Axis Title Text. How to do it or if it can be done?
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Jun 14, 2010
I am working in Civil 3d 2010. I have annotative text and when I apply background mask the width is huge. Is there a system variable or something else that I need to change so the background will only be masked behind the text and not additional width?
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Dec 22, 2011
More and more often I come across exhibits where the text has a background mask shaped like the letters and numbers, used in the callout. Typically I see this in GIS software based exhibits. Looking for text that can be used in CAD that functions similiarly? Currently working in 2011 Civil 3d.
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May 21, 2012
The background mask does not align with text in curve labels with the "allow curve text" set to true. See Attached.
I found old posts with this problem for version 2009 and older. Is it still a problem in 2011/12/13?
(running C3D 2012 sp4, Win7 64bit, 8GB)
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Aug 1, 2013
The only way I know to create a new character style is to create one, set the parameters, and then use it and apply it to text elements.
Is there a way to create a character style FROM existing characteristics of existing text?
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Aug 25, 2005
I have created a background for a flyer I am making, but would like to add text that takes on the design of the background. So imagine that the background is a piece of cloth, if you placed you hand under the cloth the cloth would take on the impression of the hand. So the text would be poppin' out at the viewer from what would look like underneath the background. Something similar to this. I have seen it on other flyers and was just wondering how it is done.
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Apr 16, 2011
I'm creating a large document with the same background but different pics and text on the multiple pages. I want to create a background that is not a bitmap but is still vector and that I can edit, that will automatically come up with each new page. And the kicker is that if I change one thing to the background, it will auto populate the change to the rest of the document.
The background consists of a title, a company logo, some solid fill text and pic areas. So for instance if I wanted to change the background color from green to blue I don't want to have to go to each page and change it individually.
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Jan 28, 2004
How do I set fire to text or an image with a transpenent background?
I am building a web site for a client that wants to use colorful backgound.
The client wants fire on all of his mouse over images and text.
I know how to create the fire to the image, but I get white around the image or text.
It looks bad on the color background.
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Jun 29, 2012
I am looking for a way to change the text style used by a table style with Visual LISP. So far I have been able to get the IAcadTableStyle object from the acad_tablestyle dictionary, but there is no property for text style. Is this even possible? Code and results are below.
(defun DumpTableStyles ()
(setq dict (vla-get-dictionaries (vla-get-activedocument(vlax-get-acad-object))))
(setq TableStyles (vla-item dict "acad_tablestyle"))
(vlax-for TableStyle TableStyles
(vlax-dump-object TableStyle)
)
)
[Code]....
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Feb 1, 2012
Is there any way to lock a text style so that the associated font style can not be changed?
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Oct 8, 2013
I am trying to add an MTEXT background mask in vba I know it may be easy to do in lisp but I already have a working vba code for creating the MTEXT just need to add the background mask into the text.
all the codes I can find in the internet are doing it in lisp.
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Jun 11, 2013
I'm looking for the best way to create some sort of background mask in my blocks.
I'm using blocks as my mechanical symbols, to be inserted into my piping and instrumentation diagrams.
The diagrams contain several lines, and in the past the company would simply trim out the lines around the symbols. I would like to stop trimming the lines by simply putting an invisible hatch/mask around my blocks.
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Dec 2, 2013
I need to create a new point style so i can use it as a single point or multipoint for when i bring in x-y coordinates.Or if i create a block how can i use it as a multipoint for x-y coordinates?
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Oct 10, 2012
It's kind of hard to see on this photograph, but there is shading that occurs to the left and top of the MTEXT on plots only. This happens about 80% of the time, with no rhyme or reason as to why it does or doesn't....
We are printing to HP/GL-2 using HP drivers. I'm sure it's a print driver thing.
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May 5, 2011
I have labelled an FDO feature which include a TEXT BACKGROUND (Mask) white in colour to make the text stand out. I attempt to savecurrentmaptoautocad thinking that the Text Mask will come across as a HATCH Patterm but nothing is coming across when I open the DWG file. I have been through all the options to try and get the mask to appear in the new DWG file to no avail
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Apr 9, 2009
Any way to change the default settings for the background mask used with Mtext?
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May 30, 2013
Where I can get started with a lisp routine that will apply or remove from a selection of text objects (or MLeaders), a background mask set to standard 1.5 coverage; fill color set to background?
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Jan 29, 2013
When I try to apply the background mask while inside the text editor of the dimension the background mask does not apply. However if I right click the dimension -> properties-> text->fill color -> background, it works.
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Oct 27, 2011
I used to be able to edit the dimension to include background mask and suddenly cannot.
i really need the BGM.
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Jun 24, 2013
My background masks is displaying a border (which is not desired) and they are not masking the backound but instead are masking the text. What gives? (see attached)
This issue is specific to one drawing. It seems to effect all background masks regardless of style. They are set to use drawing background color. And border option is set to false in the label styles.
The last items I worked on in the last sesson where to create a corridor and an intersection.
Also, why the pen table is printing correctly that would work as well. The attached image was printed using a black/white pen file. Go figure.
C3D 2012 SP 2.1
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May 4, 2010
I am trying to use a lisp that will turn on a background mask on selected mleaders. I found the attached lisp here [URL]. it works good except the mask border offset factor is set to 1.5. I need the offset to be 1.0. When I look thru the lisp code it says the default is 1.0 but can be changed.
how I can use the lisp and get mask offset factor to be 1.0?
C3D 2010
3G RAM
XP PRO, SP2
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