How to create text in CAD?

In CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software, text is a crucial element that you add to CAD drawings to label, annotate and communicate important design information.

How to create rtext (Remote text) objects

Rtext command is used to create remote text (rtext) or reactive text. Users can edit an existing remote text object (Rtext) with RTEDIT command.

How to work on text with TXT2MTXT command

The TXT2MTXT is used to convert or combine single-line or multiline text objects into one or more multiline text objects.

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

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.

How to modify the sample text of Mtext ?

By default the sample text reads abc, but we can enter system variable MTJIGSTRING to change it to whatever we’d like it to read.

Small tips for creating single-line text

Although it’s called single-line text, we can actually press Enter key to change line and make it multiple lines.

Can we create Arc-Aligned text with GstarCAD?

With GstarCAD, we can not only create single line and multiline text object, but also arc-aligned text with ARCTEXT Command.

How to find and replace text in CAD?

We all know that we can find or replace data such as texts and numbers in a worksheet, but do you know that we can actually do the same in GstarCAD?

Why I’m unable to edit by double-clicking the text?

By default, CAD supports operations to select objects before executing the command, so many users are accustomed to operating after selecting the graphics that they are going to edit. But this can be changed. You can execute commands first and then select the graphics to be edited.

Text

CAD system consists of Single Line Text and Mtext. Let’s start with the very basics of Text.