2 small questions
Hi all,
I'm quite new in Bricscad and I have 2 (small) questions :
1) how or where can you change the default text heigth for a multiline text box ?
Once you entered the command and clicked for the first corner, you can change the heigth and go on with the command. Bricscad doesn't remember the value you entered and the next time you use this command, the heigth of the text is the default value again...
2) Can you change the fact that a block disappears when you define it ?
Each time I define a block, the new block itself disappears. You can immediately insert the new block but it would be very handy for me that a block does NOT disappear when defined.
greetings
Philip
Comments
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Hi Philip,
1. The default text height for text and mtext is controlled by the TEXTSIZE system variable. You can change the value of this variable manually by typing TEXTSIZE on the command line -or this variable gets automatically changed when you run the text/mtext command and you change the height through the dialog box or command line.
2. To retain the block, there is a radio button option in the BLOCK command dialog box which says "Retain". Ensure that option is checked. It appears that you have the "Delete" radio button checked in your setup. That should solve the problem.
I hope this helps.
Regards
Rakesh Rao
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TEXTSIZE is the correct system variable I was looking for...
To retain the block when defining, there are 3 choices :
1) retain
2) convert to block
3) delete
I changed this to "convert to block" and my problem is solved. (My setting was "retain" and still it disappeared... strange but now it works).
Many thanks !
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Hello,
I have an additional question to my 2nd question (from my first post) :
When creating a block, you can indeed choose if the block needs to remain of disappear. This can only be done when I use the command "block".
You can also define a block by using the command "-b" : this way, you don't get a window and you need to read in your command line... (and you don't have to click on the icon the select a base point, so I think it's a little bit faster)
But when using "-b" as command you can't choose that the new block must not disappear : is there a way to change this setting ?
greetings
Philip
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Hi Philip,
All commands starting with - (hypen) character are designed to be used in scripts, Lisp etc. The 'Retain' option in the block command is only a user-interface option provided for convenience. I think it is not important for this option to be part of the command-line. You can always insert the block later with a -Insert command using Lisp or script. even in AutoCAD, it is the same behaviour.
Regards
Rakesh Rao
http://rakeshrao.typepad.com0