ARE DYNAMIC COLUMNS USEFUL ?

[dany_rochefort]

Does anybody use the Dynamic Columns options contained in the Mtext dialog box ? If so, what do you use them for ?

I find myself constantly de-activating the dynamic columns option because it has never ever ever ever produced anything that looks good. Is there a way to completely de-activate this function ?

Please advise, thanks 

[dseslar]

If one needs to put pages of text on a drawing sheet, dynamic columns are quite useful.  This is commonly done for civil drawings and architectural drawings.  Type the notes up in a word processor, then copy the notes from that file into an mtext object.  Setting the column width, the column height and the gutter allows the mass of text to overflow automatically from one column to the next.  Need to insert some text in the middle?  No problem - just paste it where you want the text to go and all of the following text in the mtext object flows as needed into the adjacent column(s).  This may not be useful on your planet, but it is on mine.

[marianne.mcdonaldTZVTF]

Thanks! I can never figure out what the variables are called

[cadffm]

@marianne.mcdonaldTZVTF 

Christmas time - How to learn&find.. 🎅

Start the command in question:  MText<enter>

Open onlineHelp - press [F1]

Read informations and follow the link to related reference commmands&variable

It is the 3. one

Also if you have no idea, it needs not more than 2minutes to find this information in Help[F1]

It is a general 'How to' and yes, it is not working for each command, not for each variable,

but for the very most of them who are directly related to a command.

[Michael_Franklin]

Hi! This is AutoDesk and we'd like to shove our new features down your throat, hope you're hungry!

***you are correct*** this feature may be useful, but there is no reason to set it AS A DEFAULT and also constantly change every tool, reset ridiculous system settings so things break (hatch won't show up: HPMAXLINES doesn't equal 1000000) and make it a mystery on how to change it back to the way you were used to seeing it, so that you may actually get some work done today.

Then, the mods on the forum make you feel like the dumb one when you can't figure out what is not working without an hour of internet research, and you find others that had the same frustrating experience graciously write up a tutorial helping you get AutoCAD back to "classic" .

Need to appease the shareholders that AutoCAD is progressing, and convince your bossman that pays for it that you NEEED to buy the latest shiny new version.      The way to do that is to remove the perpetual licensing and require a subscription, so you don't actually own it anymore...   which is exactly what they did!   

Most architects do not need any new feature that came out in the past 5-7  (or even more) versions, including the ribbon.  It just takes up unnecessary space on my screen. We just simply need AutoCAD updated by AutoDesk to work smoothly with the latest versions of Windows...  We know it, and they know it, but there's not much anyone can do. 

Add it to the "wish list" I guess. LIKE this comment if you want AutoDesk to quit these behaviors.

If things won't show transparency when you plot, set PLOTTRANSPARENCYOVERRIDE = 2
If your hatches won't show on large areas when plotted, but show on your screen, set HPMAXLINES = 10000000
If you can't set a text string without "Dynamic Columns" being the default and showing 2 columns of text, set MTEXTCOLUMN = 0

[RSomppi]

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@Michael_Franklin wrote:

Hi! This is AutoDesk and we'd like to shove our new features down your throat, hope you're hungry!

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That's one way to derail a perfectly good thread.