topic Double Click to Edit Text does not work in AutoCAD Forum

Double Click to Edit Text does not work

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:08:45 GMT

Hi Guys,

So in a bit of a situation.

I have a submission in a few hours and nothing is working to solve the double click issue. I did the noun setting and the pick first but that isnt working even.

If someone can help ASAP that would be amazing 🙂 I have uploaded the file.

Thank you!!

Re: Double Click to Edit Text does not work

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:20:01 GMT

Hi,

>> Double Click to Edit Text does not work

Can you please describe what happens when you double click onto a MTEXT object? What happens on the screen and what does AutoCAD show in the command line?

Also worth to try:

verify the sysvar DBLCLKEDIT (it should be on)
what happens when you enter command _MTEDIT and select one of your MTEXT objects?

- alfred -

Re: Double Click to Edit Text does not work

Patchy — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:20:13 GMT

DBLCLKEDIT

Re: Double Click to Edit Text does not work

TheCADnoob — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:21:26 GMT

If you are in a pinch you can change the contents of the text from the properties window.

Re: Double Click to Edit Text does not work

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:39:24 GMT

Hi Alfred,

I ended up resetting cad to it's default settings out of desperation for time. So that solved the problems for now! Will check my other files if there is an issue there.

Thank you 🙂

Text rotating

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:44:22 GMT

Hi Alfred,

I find that my text is now rotating? I changed the style in my file which was the issue, but when I am pasting annotations from another file into this new one it rotates when editing it, but it does not share the same style as the previous one with the problems

Re: Text rotating

Alfred.NESWADBA — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:42:54 GMT

Hi,

>> I find that my text is now rotating?

The text object is rotating to horizontal for better readability while editing ... that is normal.

If the text is rotating to vertical when editing then you might have used a truetype font with this "@" as first letter like "@Arial" ... this fonts should not be used, not for defining text-styles, not within MTEXT itself.

- alfred -

Re: Double Click to Edit Text does not work

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:54:27 GMT

Hi Alfred.

i had the same problem you were trying to solve on this chat. and the dblclkedit doesn't fix my problem.

do you have another suggestion for this?

Thanks.

Re: Double Click to Edit Text does not work

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:56:59 GMT

got it, used pickfirst (1) and solved.