Edit or Modify Texts

Edit

Using the 'Edit' function, one can modify texts on a drawing. The program precisely detects whether the text was created as single-line or multi-line and automatically opens the corresponding dialog box. In each case, the same dialog box opens as when the text was originally created. Therefore, both the text itself and its formatting can be changed.

There is, however, a special case when positioning. Using the right mouse button, you can cancel the positioning; in that case the text is inserted at its previous location.

Modify

With the 'Modify (Texts)' function, one can change the formatting of one or multiple texts. In the upper and lower sections of the dialog box, the same configuration options are available as in the dialog box for text styles. This allows assigning a different setting to an individual text than the one defined in the text style. In the topmost drop-down list, one can also directly select a different text style.

At the lower end of the upper section of the dialog box there are settings that only come into existence when the text is created. Therefore they are not related to the text style. The following settings can be changed there:

Layer: This displays the layer to which the selected texts belong. By changing the layer, all selected texts are assigned to the new layer.

Text was created: The program can distinguish whether a text originates from a file from the design program or was entered manually in the drawing program. This information is used when inserting another file into the same view window. With the 'Drawing Program' software version, it can be set there whether the content of the view window should be fully cleared before insertion, only elements from a file, or nothing at all. This can be manipulated by changing the assignment of individual elements here.

To modify texts, one may select any number of texts at once. When multiple texts are selected, it may frequently occur that some of the texts have different settings for one or more options. Because the program can display only one setting per option, three asterisks (***) appear in the affected field. This immediately indicates that the selected texts have differing settings in that field. As long as the setting in such a field is not changed, the individual texts retain their respective settings. However, once the setting is changed, all selected texts receive the new setting.