The MTEXTFIXED system variable sets the display size and orientation of multiline text in a specified text editor.Ġ or 1: Displays the In-Place Text Editor and the text within it at the size, position, and rotation of the multiline text object in the drawing.Ģ: Displays the In-Place Text Editor and the text within it at the size, position, and rotation of the multiline text object in the drawing. Have you ever double clicked an MTEXT object and the text appear very large or off the screen? Well, this is where the MTEXTFIXED variable comes in handy.

Next up is how we edit and view text when double clicking the mtext object.

The contextual Ribbon (shown below) will show up no matter what setting you use for this variable.ġ: The Text Formatting toolbar is displayed upon selection of an MTEXT object.Ģ: The Text Formatting toolbar does not display when the ribbon is on. The settings for the MTEXTTOOLBAR are as follows:Ġ: The Text Formatting toolbar is never displayed. I like to have this set to 1 which will display the toolbar directly above your mtext for quick formatting. The MTEXTTOOLBAR (shown below) system variable controls the display of the Text Formatting toolbar. There are a few system variables that I use frequently and have come up in my workflow over the past several weeks.ĭo you miss that toolbar that was shown above MTEXT in a previous version of AutoCAD? You can get that back with the MTEXTTOOLBAR system variable. For this post I wanted to share some tricks that I use when using Mtext in AutoCAD.

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