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FILTER command to select MTEXT objects based on contents

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:04:36 GMT

I am using AutoCAD 2015 and I have a drawing with multiple MTEXT objects which are diffuser/grille references ie. SG1, SG2, EG1, B/SG1, B/EG1

What I would like to do is use the FILTER command to select all MTEXT items that contain the text SG and EG but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it.

Can anyone help? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: FILTER command to select MTEXT objects based on contents

h_s_walker — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:46:48 GMT

I would do a quick select.

QSELECT

Change the object type to MTEXT

Now select CONTENTS

Change = to WILDCARD MATCH

Now put *?G#* in the white box

The ? is a single letter before the G

The # is a single digit after the G

The *s at the beginning and end are Any characters at the beginning and end (including no characters at all)

You can ignore the question mark if you want

Re: FILTER command to select MTEXT objects based on contents

3wood — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:28:28 GMT

@h_s_walker wrote:

I would do a quick select.

QSELECT

Agree.

Settings as below:

Re: FILTER command to select MTEXT objects based on contents

sbutler502 — Wed, 01 May 2024 16:31:07 GMT

Does not work for me (Civil 3D 2022).

Looking to just select three digit numbers.

wild card filter ### gives nothing

wild card filter *** gives everything

wild card filter ??? gives nothing

The hidden formatting codes are causing it to fail. All the numbers are preceded with

\pxqc;

Almost as bad as drawing on layer 0.

Re: FILTER command to select MTEXT objects based on contents

Patchy — Wed, 01 May 2024 16:45:14 GMT

Use text value

*SG*

it will work

Re: FILTER command to select MTEXT objects based on contents

sbutler502 — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:11:02 GMT

Nope first I have to strip out some formatting.

I'm trying this

StripMtext Version 5.0b (Removes embedded Mtext formatting)

With the amount of annotative mtext it took awhile.

Wildcard ### now works.

Re: FILTER command to select MTEXT objects based on contents

Patchy — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:15:59 GMT

Post your .dwg and see if it works.