How to mirror text horizontally without it appearing upside down

[naritakaiju]

I’m experiencing two problems when mirroring room labels and an electrical layout.

Room labels. I can mirror it without the text being upside down, but the order of the words is inverted.

The original layout will read: Master Bedroom https://19216801.onl/ 

When mirrored, it reads: Bedroom Master

I can’t figure out how to fix this.

2) Electrical layout. When horizontally mirroring this, the text is upside down (so an M will look like a W once mirrored). I can’t seem to figure this out either. Figured this one out.

The videos I’ve watched don’t address 1) because they don’t consider stacked text like it is in my case. Any and all help is appreciated, thanks!

[imadHabash]

Hi and Welcome to AutoCAD Forum,

Would you please attache here the " Master Bedroom "  and " M " examples as a CAD dwg file?

[dmfrazier]

"Room labels. I can mirror it without the text being upside down, but the order of the words is inverted."

(Note: I assume you have the MirrText variable set to zero/off.)

The only way I can replicate what you describe is if the label is actually two separate lines of Text/ two separate MText objects (or two separate Attributes).

If this is the case, then the solution is to combine the text into one object (Mtext).

"Electrical layout. When horizontally mirroring this, the text is upside down (so an M will look like a W once mirrored)."

Is the layout a block?

[Kent1Cooper]

For the Master Bedroom issue, is that one Mtext object or two separate Text objects?

For the M-vs.-W issue, read about MIRRTEXT.

[RSomppi]

It sounds like you want a copy instead of a mirrored version of the texts.

Why are you using mirror when copy will do what you want?

[dany_rochefort]

Guys please help me... 🤣

[Marie_k156]

I usually explode it and it flips back to the normal way before making it a block again. Most problems are solved by explode lol. This problem only happens if the text is kept as a block. if you flip text as it is, the orientation stays same.

[dmfrazier]

"2) Electrical layout. When horizontally mirroring this, the text is upside down (so an M will look like a W once mirrored)."

"This problem only happens if the text is kept as a block. if you flip text as it is, the orientation stays same."

You've answered your own question.

"I usually explode it and it flips back to the normal way before making it a block again. Most problems are solved by explode lol. "

You don't have to explode the block and then re-create it. After the block has been mirrored, simply use RefEdit to redefine it. (Or, redefine the block by mirroring it.)