Text

Text adds lettering to your drawing for city labels, river names, etc.

Edit Text dialog box options

When you select TEXT, CC3 displays a text-editing window into which you can type up to 256 characters on one line.

1. Type the desired text. If you wish to enter more than one line of text, select the Multi-line option.

While typing, you can:

·   Use the keyboard arrow keys, HOME, and END to move the cursor within the editing window;

·   Press DEL (Delete) to delete the character under the cursor;

·   Press BACKSPACE to delete characters to the left of the cursor;

·   Type special characters using the ALT key.

Choose the OK button when you have finished entering text. CC3 returns you to the drawing screen and displays a dynamic text placement cursor.

2. The prompt reads "Place (Shift = 15° Rot, Ctrl=Scale, Justify)[below prior]::".Press any of the hotkeys to change the justification or style.

3. Select a text insertion point with the cursor or type numeric coordinates, or press the right button to place below the last piece of text. 

CC3 draws the text.

Whilst using Text pressing certain keys while moving the mouse provides the following action:

·   CTRL dynamically scales the text, making them larger or smaller depending upon direction of the mouse movement.

·   SHIFT dynamically rotates with a snap to the nearest 15°. The current rotation is shown on the status bar for fast readings.

·   CTRL+SHIFT dynamically rotates the text.

·   The arrow keys dynamically rotate objects about the "Drag from" point’ locking to 0º, 90º, 180º and 270º degress.

Other great Text features:

·   Type in a number at the command prompt and CC3 will set the text height.

·   You are also able to change the justification in "mid-command": (both numbers and letters are available for some of the commands)

· Press L or type 1 to set left justify

· Press C or type 2 to set center justify

· Press R or type 3 to set right justify

· Press K or type 4 to keep your current settings as default

· Press D or type 5 to reset the text properties to default

· Press B to set bottom justify

· Press M to set middle justify

· Press T to set top justify

· Press F to set far justifification

· Press N to set normal justifification

· Change the text style in mid command.

· Press S (Strong) for Bold again for not Bold,

· Press I for Italic again for not Italic,

· Press O for outline, again for filled,

· Press U for underline, again for not underlined.

· Enter a negative value to change the text angle.

· Press TAB to flip between 0° and 90° degrees.

·   The arrow keys can be used to increment/decrement numbers in the text. UP/DOWN will increment/decrement the first number in the text and RIGHT/LEFT will increment/decrement the last.

Text Tips
The scale and rotate feature makes it very easy to fit text to existing objects without setting text height in advance. Stretching text this way does not reset CC3's height value for new text - the next text entity you draw will still have the original current height. Select Keep Text Height & Angle to keep the settings.

You can draw text at any height, angle, or spacing, and with many True Type® fonts; you can align text with any combination of Left, Center, Right, Top, Mid, and Bottom justifications.

To set properties for new text:

To change the properties of existing text:

Use EDIT TEXT or Change-Text Properties

To insert text from an ANSI text file:

Use Edit >> Insert File to insert text from a plain text file.

For more information on how text is displayed by CC3

See CC3 and Windows Text

Text equivalent: TEX (display dialog box)

Macro equivalent: TEXM (bypass dialog box)