Without order, there is chaos… :)
Have you ever been challenged with having numerous Text Objects and would like to quickly reorient them on the screen? (i.e. Line them up vertically, make their spacing uniform, change them from left justified to center justified…)
I used to come across this all the time when wrapping up my construction drawings. The problem is that the process of altering text positioning is usually pretty manual and tedious. Over the years, I have seen a lot of creative workflows to make it faster but it can still be very painful.
Having said this, there is a command that was added to AutoCAD a couple of releases ago that makes the task of reorienting large amounts of Text very simple and straightforward. Problem is many folks (especially Civil 3D users) have overlooked it because when it was released, it fell under the new AutoCAD feature list rather than the new Civil 3D feature list.
If you have not seen or tried the TEXTALIGN command, give it a shot.
Check out the video below to see how:
-Jerry
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