The reference file shows up in the External References palette with an asterisk preceding the full path until the host drawing has been saved. In previous releases of AutoCAD, you could not assign a relative path to a reference file if the host drawing had not yet been saved. When you attach an Xref in AutoCAD 2018, the default path type is now set to Relative path instead of Full path, although you can control this by changing a new system variable. Improved Control Over External References Additionally, there is a new option that allows you to force uniform line spacing or maintain existing line spacing. Character codes translate correctly between Text and Mtext, justification is properly inferred based on the positioning of text objects (instead of always defaulting to left-justification) and numbered and lettered list formatting is inferred when the word-wrap text checkbox is selected. The new version of this tool lets you select Mtext objects in addition to text. Although the TXT2MTXT tool had been available in AutoCAD previously as an Express Tool, it now also shows up on the inert ribbon in AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT.
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This can be particularly useful after recognizing and converting SHX text from an imported PDF file. Other PDF improvements correct orientation problems with rotated TrueType text so that the program no longer creates upside-down text.Īnother new tool lets you convert single-line text into Mtext and combine multiple individual text objects into one multiline text object. Two new tools help you fix things when links to external references become broken. Although this tool was actually added to the 2017.1 release, a new option lets the program use the best-matching font, ensuring that AutoCAD compares the text with all of the selected fonts and then chooses the best match. The program compares each of the selected fonts in order until one is found that matches the selected text within the specified recognition threshold. The most common SHX fonts are listed by default and you are able to add and remove fonts based on your needs.
A settings dialog help you manage which SHX fonts to compare against selected text.
The new SHX recognition tool analyzes selected geometry, compares it with characters in SHX fonts you specify, and converts it into text. When that PDF file was subsequently imported into a DWG file, the original SHX text was imported as geometry, not text.ĪutoCAD 2018 provides a new text recognition tool that enables you to select imported PDF geometry representing text and convert it into actual AutoCAD text objects. AutoCAD 2017 also could recognize TrueType text and images.īut because Adobe’s PDF format doesn’t recognize AutoCAD SHX fonts, text that had originally been defined with SHX fonts was stored in the PDF file as geometry. The PDFIMPORT command added last year enabled users to import actual PDF geometry as 2D AutoCAD lines, arcs and circles. Before then, you could attach a PDF as an underlay and then manually recreate the depicted geometry. AutoCAD 2017 introduced the ability to import PDF files. PDF files are the most common file format used when exchanging design information between members of the design team and others. Improvements to AutoCAD’s PDF capabilities lead the list of new features. AutoCAD 2018 and AutoCAD LT 2018 now enable you to easily control settings when converting SHX text geometry back into actual text.
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