Cannot convert source arrow xref to multi-line
I am not clear on this. Are you just trying to resize area or edit the text? Is your full tool bar for mtext edit open? To turn the tool bar on right click in the text box to open the dialog. And if it is just the box, to you make the size change and then click outside the box? If you do not exit the editor correctly it will not save the edit, just go back to what it was when you started.
Good luck
I think I understand what is going on here.
When you first change xref text to mtext, ACADE does so without any adjustments to the size of the text area. It will remain the same visually until you do the following:
1. Click into the text as if to edit it. You will see a box around it that represents the text's 'area'.
2. One corner of that area will have little arrows for resizing. At first, they are right on top of one another. Grab one and drag it over.
3. You should now be able to see the hash marks on the ruler, if it's enabled. If not, you should at least see some distance between the arrows. You should also see the text respond accordingly as you drag back and forth.
4. Set it up the way you need it and exit out of the command. Now click on it again. As if by magic, the normal mtext grips are now the way you are used to seeing them. They weren't there before because they were geometrically coincident with each other (meaning they shared the exact same coordinates in space). Their coincidence also prevented you from resizing with the grips.
Hope that helps,
Jim
Jim Seefeldt
Electrical Engineering Technician
When you first change xref text to mtext, ACADE does so without any adjustments to the size of the text area. It will remain the same visually until you do the following:
1. Click into the text as if to edit it. You will see a box around it that represents the text's 'area'.
2. One corner of that area will have little arrows for resizing. At first, they are right on top of one another. Grab one and drag it over.
3. You should now be able to see the hash marks on the ruler, if it's enabled. If not, you should at least see some distance between the arrows. You should also see the text respond accordingly as you drag back and forth.
4. Set it up the way you need it and exit out of the command. Now click on it again. As if by magic, the normal mtext grips are now the way you are used to seeing them. They weren't there before because they were geometrically coincident with each other (meaning they shared the exact same coordinates in space). Their coincidence also prevented you from resizing with the grips.
Hope that helps,
Jim
Jim Seefeldt
Electrical Engineering Technician
Hi!
I believe this behaviour was due to a change in AutoCAD (vanilla) on how automatic line breaks in MTEXT's should occur. Previously, it would break to a new line when it found a comma, but it don't do that any longer.
It will however, break on a "space". So, what I've done, is to add an extra space at the end of the cross referencing format, making the multi-line cross references break as expected. Here's my settings.. not the extra space in "/%S.%N ":
