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Shaping Text Boxes into Arcs and Circles

Shaping Text Boxes into Arcs and Circles

Shaping Text Boxes into Arcs and Circles

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How would I take a line of text and make it into the shape of an arc? If you are on a Dell comp, this could be more easily explained. Look at the power button. Around it there is probably something that says "DIMENSION" on the power button. I'm trying to draw this in AutoCad 05. How could I do this?

RE: Shaping Text Boxes into Arcs and Circles

How I did it:  Draw a single-line text, put a single character in it, array it around to make as many characters as you need, then edit each one to what you want.  Then make eyeball spacing adjustments to make it look right.  This sounds like a stupid way to do things, but when I first started AutoCAD, I didn't know of a better way, and I still don't.  I was drawing my PE seal, so I only had to do this once.

It would be handy if angular dimensions could have curved text, but again, have never seen anything about that.  Seems like the program used at a past employer could do that, but it wasn't AutoCAD.

RE: Shaping Text Boxes into Arcs and Circles

I just noticed that it doesn't look like the title of your question matches the question.  I'm assuming you want a curved line of text.  Not a text box that's circular, with regular horizontal text inside- which is what the title sounds like.

RE: Shaping Text Boxes into Arcs and Circles

If you have express tools on your version of ACAD, under the express text tools toolbar has Arc Aligned Text or use Arctext command at the prompt.

Hope this helps,
John

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