November 23, 2008

Text / Dimension Wipeouts, Where did it go?

When working in many of our projects it becomes necessay to create a wipeout to hide data that would otherwise create readablity issues with text and dimensions. If it isn't feasible to utilize the functionality of background masking in mtext or dimensions, the good 'ol tired and true wipeout command can suffice. However after working with a drawing the display order will somehow get out of whack, where did all my text go?

Instead of having to select each text or dimension object and change the display order manually, you can simply type TEXTTOFRONT, which invokes a command that will as prompted bring text, dimensions or both to the front of the display order. Much faster than having to find any missing text and select it.
Simply type TEXTTOFRONT, then autocad prompts you for what you want to move forward, text, dimensions or both, simply hit enter a second time and it will by diffault bring all text and dimensions to the front.