Deleting Text

Richard Sands

I often have need to combine 2 pieces of text and just click on one and use my keyboard to copy and then paste into another text entry.
(I have dedicated Cut/ Copy/ Paste keys on my Keyboard  which makes life so easy)

I don't want to make it MTEXT in those cases.

I have often felt like Cutting rather than Copy the text but wonder if the result will be heaps of empty text entities.
That would save me deleting unwanted entity.

Is that anything to be concerned about?  I really have no idea what takes place behind the scenes so to speak,
regards
Richard

Jason Bourhill

Hi Richard,

Believe you will find that this method will result in empty text strings. Ideally Bricscad should recognise that the string is empty and delete it from the drawing, which is how Acad now works. Suggest you raise a support request.

Attach a lisp routine, which will check the drawing for empty text strings, and give you the option to delete, or replace. Created this, as it was a real problem at a number of places I worked at the time. It was surprising how many of these could be present on a drawing, I found some drawings with many 1000s on them. Back then it caused performance to slow to a crawl, also difficult to spot as the file size isn't necessarily large, and purge won't remove. You can also get a similar issue from people inserting empty blocks on to a drawing.

It would be pretty easy to create a lisp routine to join text in the way you describe. I'm sure if you look around you will find one.

Regards,

Jason Bourhill

CAD Concepts

NoEmptyText.lsp

Richard Sands

Thanks Jason
I did think it had potential to bloat the dwg.
Yes, thought after posting of chasing up a lisp do do that thanks.

Appreciate the LISP.
regards
Richard