word document into autocad

This is kind of a Office 2003 question, but also involves AutoCAD.

 

try the "paste special" option under the edit pull down, it will allow you
to insert as an editable word doc , or there are other options as well.

 

the
notes.

What alignment are you looking for? You can pick almost any alignment except
justified for mtext...unless that's what you're trying to do.

Not sure what version you're on, but 2004 and above also support tabs and
indents now -- one of my favorite new features.

 

I like my notes to be exactly 80 characters long in each line so it reads
like a newspaper or magazine,
I place extra spaces in the lines to block them out so I have perfect
columns.

I dont think asctext.lsp supports tabs with dtext.

Rick

 

Rick,

MTEXT command allows you to import text..Right click in edit window and
choose "insert text"..Now format as you choose..Or as the editor
allows...Does tab anyway..

gl
Paul

 

Rick,

Looks like we both like our notes to look perfect, this is the way my notes
usually look like. I do not use MTEXT, for the same reason as you. We use
a lisp function called IMTEXT, which imports a ASC TEXT file into AutoCAD
after saving the work doc as MSDOS-TEXT WITH LAYOUT file. Problem we have
on the horizon, is once we upgrade to office2003, word no longer has option
to save in this format, so we might have to keep a old copy of word97 or
2000 on a few computers so we can convert text. I usually have to do zero
formatting one I import the ASC file.

Looks like you do structural drawings, same here.


Tom

 

Yup Tom structural....

The way I do them is I just use notepad to edit my note file.
The only time I use Word is if I need to print a copy for the engineer. And
I only do that so I can have
the page numbers at the bottom so they don't mix the sheets up.

What is an ASC file? ASCII text?

I stated in an earlier post that I use a lisp routine from acad 11 (I think,
could be earlier) that will import ascii text into acad as DTEXT.

Also.... I find if you use a mono-spaced font... A font that all characters
are the same width... (i.e.... an "I" is the same width as a "W")
The notes look better. I use msimplex.

I don't like using all of the fancy fonts that the architects use.... I
believe structural drawings should be functional and to the point.

Rick

 

We use monosi font, works well. Yes saving a word file as MS-DOS TET with
LAYOUT saves the files as a true ASCII text file.