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AutoCAD multilinetext width?

  • December 29, 2014
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Is there any way to determine the width (in coordinate units) of AutoCAD multiline text output?

 

 

I need to offset the text to the left for callout tags where the leader line leans to the left of the item they are describing (subtract width amount from x coordinate) - but I have yet to figure a way to extract the "rendered" width of the longest line to do so.
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  • hallkbrdz
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  • December 31, 2014
If this is not possible - what is a good way to calculate the longest line (in number of characters) so I can just use that and mutiply by an average width to get close?
david_r
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  • david_rCelebrity
  • January 5, 2015
Hi,

 

 

have you looked at the StringLengthCalculator?

 

 

David
gio
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  • gioContributor
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  • January 7, 2015
SLC is in bytes, is it not?

 

 

I use boundingbox on the text attribute and extract its dimensions.

 

You need to (trial and error) adjust the value somewhat.

 

It is very dependant on the font type.

 

Look:

 

 

 

creates:

 

 

 

and zoomed in:

 

 

 

 

There is a tcl/TkCmd Font (wich has for instance Measure function) Wich is in pixels tough.

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