Text increment tool not working

If I place a string of text that includes letters and numbers then the text increment tool no longer works in V8i select 1

In V8i I could use this command but I had to drop the element from a text node to a text element. In this version that doesn't work

Please fix this

Text with letters are placed as a text node no matter how many lines you have

single line text with only numbers are place as a Text Element

Parents
  • Your text style has 'full justification' enabled. This forces a text node for any string more than one character (I think pre-SS1 it created a text node even for a single character). The purpose of full justification is to insert space between words so that each line in a piece of text has words on the left and right boundaries (i.e. similar to newspaper columns).

    1b. Due to the text node requirement for full justification, dropping actually creates an invalid element, thus the related issues here. You'll also notice that after dropping, if you round-tripped the element through an editor it would fix itself and become a text node again.

    1c. Copy/Increment doesn't work on text nodes -- known limitation.

    3. I believe even if you were to make a single text element with two EDFs, we would not increment from 9-10 since we would not modify the independent EDFs as a single unit.

    4. This is what full justification does.

    5. I'm not terribly familiar with the verify dgn app; I can see it report range errors, but it doesn't even tell me which elements have the problem... I don't think that's related to the text problems however.

  • Hi Jeff,

    1c. Copy/Increment doesn't work on text nodes -- known limitation

    Why is that (still) so? there are a lot single line text nodes around. In (from) DWG a text is always a node so it never works in dwgs. (as Jons VBA shows that incrementing a textnode seems no issue though)

  • Jon's VBA shows that incrementing a textnode seems no issue

    Here's the link to the freeware Increment Numeric Text!

     
    Regards, Jon Summers
    LA Solutions

Reply Children
No Data