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I just want to turn off auto-formating of text. So that I can format as i need to. Permenantly.
I have tried to find the way to turn it off. I am sure I missed it.
We have formatting rules were I work and the autofomat causes more problems and solves none. I just want to turn it off. I will do my own formatting.
AutoCAD Mechanical 2015
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Thanks acwtzwegers. but i think you misunderstood what I mean.
I'll provide a detailed example.
I do the following:
>mtext (enter)
1.(space)Testing due to
increased size.
I get:
(tab)1.(tab)Testing due to
(tab)2.(tab)increased size.
Basically AutoCAD is formatting the text that "I inserted it exacly how I want it to look" and changing it to "how it wants it to look."
I am not talking about a text style. I am talking about formatting of text.
I agree with a company should try and adapt to autodesks layers. However this has no relevance on the issue on hand. And is not always going to be accepted by the Drafting Manager who has been in place for 40+ years. The one thing I have learned about draftsman and AutoCad users, is that they are the most stubburn kind of people. In fact I am still the only person I work with who has adapted to the ribbon. But that is another topic for another day.
Thanks. I knew there had to be something I had missed.
It wasn't a text box size issue. I was manually inserting the (enter) because of the space I had in that particular section.
Bullets and Numbering was Off. But in double checking it I saw 6 lines below it that there is a spot to check or uncheck
"allow Auto Bullets and Numbering"
and " Allow Bullets and Lists"
at the moment doesn't seem to be drawing based, and once i changed it i opened 5 different drawings and was able to insert the text as I wished. even closed the application and re-opened and still performing as desired. Again thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Oh, many, many thanks. This had been bugging me for quite a while now too. Finally decided to look it up. Good thing I did, should have done this a year ago, lol.
I had issues with everytime I typed something like "(E)REINF. CONC." it would automatically turn everything before the first period into a bulleted list. I finally found the answer to stop that: set "MTEXTDETECTSPACE" to zero. (https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to...)