Streamline creation of Text Fields

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I find the creation of Text Fields takes a lot of clicks.

It takes 9 clicks to place an attribute user text. The process fails if a curve is preselected.

Unless I’m overlooking something, there’s no option to create text fields through the command line and the intended way is through the Text command. So the only way to make the process quicker would be a scripted command?

Or can it somehow be done with a macro?

The test command mentioned by @wim in this topic is helpful:

In an example with two curves with user text, I placed one text manually and used TestMatchAnnotionFields to create the second one.

9 clicks for the first text and 3 for the second one…

Placing an area dimension takes 5 clicks going through the menu and 3 clicks if the command is entered in the command line.

I think a textfield command which is accessible in the command line would be nice. It could then hopefully be used with preselected geometry.

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agreed, its a very long winded way of getting attribute user text, I regularly need to input area, curve length & volume text

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There are commands for these three cases…

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with curve length I always end up manually putting the letters ‘CL’ in front of the text field, I have a lot of information on my layout pages and having ‘CL’ makes it clear thats its a curve length (if i remember right autocad by default puts in the ‘CL’)

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I’m sure this could be improved with a macro

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