Small Tip: WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)

My text disappeared?

Have you encounter the issue that you’ve successfully enter text using Mtext, but when you click OK, you can’t see the text just disappears, you can’t find it anywhere,

Small Tip: WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)

How does that happen? If you take a closer look, you’ll find very small text, shown as below, the text is too small to see,

Small Tip: WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)

When the text height is very small in value and unable to see clearly, the CAD system will automatically adjust the text for users to see, but when we click OK, the text will display in the original size.

What you see is what you get

When you are entering text, you can right click, find Editor Settings > Always Display as WYSIWYG, shown as below,

Small Tip: WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)

What users see on the screen is what users can get after they click OK button, the text remains in the same size.

You can see the difference from the following two picture,

Small Tip: WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)
WYSIWYG not enabled
Small Tip: WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)
WYSIWYG enabled

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