Changing color of mtext universally in a drawing

Yanko

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Feb 3, 2008, 5:10:36 PM2/3/08

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I have a situation where I have to clean up architectural drawings from
outside our office... They come with all the text in blue (mtext)... I work
with a black background and would like to change all the text to a light
color, without having to double click on each bit of mtext and manually change
it to something light.

Is there a setvar or something similar that I can set to force all mtext to
conform to what I want... Or a list routine that I can run

Thanx

sycochkn

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Feb 3, 2008, 10:29:43 PM2/3/08

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"Yanko" <YanM...@direct.ca> wrote in message
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If the text is all on the same layer just change the color of that layer.

Bob

Michael Bulatovich

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Feb 4, 2008, 8:14:09 AM2/4/08

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"Yanko" <YanM...@direct.ca> wrote in message
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You could use the FILTER and CHANGE commands to do that
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Raymond Luxury Yacht

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Feb 4, 2008, 5:45:28 PM2/4/08

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"Yanko" <YanM...@direct.ca> wrote in message
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>I have a situation where I have to clean up architectural drawings from
> outside our office... They come with all the text in blue (mtext)... I
> work
> with a black background and would like to change all the text to a light
> color, without having to double click on each bit of mtext and manually
> change
> it to something light.
>
> Is there a setvar or something similar that I can set to force all mtext
> to
> conform to what I want... Or a list routine that I can run

_FILTER
ADD SELECTED OBJECT then pick an mText
in the textbox, DELETE whatever isn't common to what you want to select (in your case, everything except OBJECT = MTEXT)
APPLY
type ALL then hit ENTER
All mText will be selected and you can change the layer in the LAYERS control on the toolbar - change the color on the COLORS control or text size on the PROPERTIES panel.

another way...
QSELECT
set OBJECT TYPE to mText
set OPERATOR to SELECT ALL
dot INCLUDE IN NEW SELECTION SET and
uncheck APPEND TO CURRENT SELECTION SET
hit OK
this will highlight all the mText - from there, you can change stuff as above.

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Yanko

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Feb 5, 2008, 2:05:44 PM2/5/08

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In article <wZqpj.8281$w57.4933@edtnps90>, YanM...@direct.ca says...

Thanks for all the suggestions... Unfortunately none of them worked
I finally decided I'd go back to the old days and attack the database...
dxfout, then used windows notepad to search and replace as needed... A lot
faster than text editing each piece of mtext... (maybe not as fast as somebody
probably knows aout there)

If I listed the text I would get something like This:

"{\C174;\lSTEP IN L26 CLG. SLAB}"

in notepad I would search and remove: "{\C174;\l" and "}"

reducing the text to: "STEP IN L26 CLG. SLAB"

then the layer would determine the colour "bylayer"

again, thanks.

gujja...@gmail.com

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