textlayer system variable

[Anonymous]

is there a way to make the "textlayer" system variable apply to all dwgs without changing it on each dwg individually ?

[cadffm]

How should it work?

The information is stored in drawing files,

 so it isn't possible to change at another place (by usual user ways).

You have to change the value where the data is stored: In each DWG file.

Working solutions are not smart and/or not simple, it is not possible by commands or sysvars inside LT

[pendean]

Not sure why they labelled it a "system" variable when it appears to behave like a single drawing variable, one dwg at a time when actively set in the file.

Anyway, you will need full AutoCAD and a lisp routine, or a script file and a script processor that works in LT to do what you want, unless you are up for some old school DOS-based BAT writing I presume.

[h_s_walker]

Doesn't look like it, but going forwards why don't you set it in a template. Or change the text command to automatically set the layer to the one you need and then start the text command.

[steven-g]

The closest you might get, would be to drag an mtext item (with the correct layer settings) onto a toolpalette, and from now on use that item when you want to create text items, it will overide the current layer settings and always use the layer that is set in the properties for the toolpalette item. You can set standard properties for many object properties in toolpalette items.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply. changing the text command might do what we're looking for. Could you tell me how to do this?

Thanks for the help