MTEXT TO TEXT

[BWYarger]

I have mtext that I want to convert to plain text so that the alignment doesn't shift when some capital letters are slightly above or below others in some fonts.  Unfortunately I didn't realize that mtext does this shift until I had a couple of thousand drawings where the exact alignment of the letters is vital.  I found the TXT2MTXT command, but I am looking for the reverse.  I tried MTXT2TXT, but the command line autocorrected to TXT2MTXT.

I am using AutoCAD LT 2024 on Windows 11, but have access to full AutoCAD and C3D if there is something in them I can use, or a lisp routine.

[pendean · Accepted solution]

EXPLODE command converts MTEXT to TEXT. That's it.

But if you have manual formatting overrides inside the MTEXT created in the mtext-editor window, all of those will get lost forever as they do not exist in the TEXT object type in AutoCAD.

Perhaps the latter is your issue?

if this "shift" is consistent, you can SELECTSIMILAR and move all of those TEXT objects back perhaps.

NOTE: LT is AutoCAD. C3D is AutoCAD. AutoCAD is AutoCAD. None are going to behave differently for this task OOTB.

[BWYarger]

Thank you.  I am glad it is a fundamental command so I can use it in LT.  Some of the after market routines I use are only available in full AutoCAD, or are part of the C3D command set.