topic Re: Need Help with Changing Color of Single Text Line in AutoCAD Forum

Need Help with Changing Color of Single Text Line

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:41:56 GMT

Hi everyone, I'm having a problem with trying to edit the color of my single text line, it seems to always to default to white and does not give me an option to change the color. I'm use to MTEXT where there would be a palette for me to change color, but it seems TEXT does not have that option. Does anybody know what I should do?

Re: Need Help with Changing Color of Single Text Line

ChicagoLooper — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:01:51 GMT

How many 'text' objects do you have? If you have multiple, how many of those individual text entities do you wish to modify?

You can try this:

Go to Express Tools tab=>Text panel=>click Convert to Mtext icon (TXT2MTEXT command).
Your cursor turns into a small square. Using your cursor, click on the TEXT object.
Repeat the process on the second text object. When done, repeat on the third text object, then the fourth, etc.

Your TEXT object has been turned into an MTEXT object so you can now access the text properties on the ribbon.

WARNING: If you select more than one text object then use the TXT2MTEXT command, you will end up combining all the individual text objects into a 'single' MTEXT object. If you want the text objects to remain as separate objects, then you'll need to perform this command individually on each text entity.

Re: Need Help with Changing Color of Single Text Line

pendean — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:05:01 GMT

Can't you just change the color of text like you would a line you draw for example? Not everything gets a special pop-up or menu in AutoAD.

1) Either select the single-line text then use properties to change the color;
2) or change the color of the layer you are in;
3) or change the variable CECOLOR to BYALYER, perhaps you are drawing everything as white for a reason other than the two above.

Re: Need Help with Changing Color of Single Text Line

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:51:11 GMT

... or use the CHPROP command, select the Text object(s), and use the Color option to give it the one you want. Ideally that would be BYLAYER and the color would come from the Layer it's on, which you can also change in CHPROP if it's not on the right Layer.

I would not change it to Mtext just to get the ribbon editing options, unless you want only part of it to be a certain color. The reason you get those options for Mtext is that you can change the color [or font or size or...] of just a portion of an Mtext object. You can't do that with Text -- it's all or nothing. So for the same color [or other properties] of complete Text objects, use the Properties palette or CHPROP.

Re: Need Help with Changing Color of Single Text Line

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:20:29 GMT

Thank you guys for the replies, I'm very new to autoCAD, so I didn't know the right click properties was a thing.