Using Remote Text in AutoCAD: Tuesday Tips With Brandon
In my tip today I wanted to highlight an older Express Tool that tends to get overlooked by many users: Remote Text (RTEXT command). It has been made less popular in some aspects by Fields (you can see my tips on Fields here), but it still has some specific, very useful, and underutilized functions that can really come in handy! Lets take a look at using RTEXT in your own drawings.
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I feel like there is a deep dark rabbit hole you can go down in the world of AutoCAD commands, and somewhere along the way you will find this remote text command. As the post suggests, this feature has been lost among the addition of fields and sheet sets, but still provides a unique way of integrating living text into a document. I, for one, would probably not utilize this feature unless for some reason I wanted to allow other users to edit the bast .txt file and have it automatically carry into the .dwg file, for instance a production/project manager. Then again, I don't particularly like information coming into my files without my knowledge, in which case I could simply copy and paste external information straight in, or just edit the text block directly. Nevertheless, I am sure at some point in time I will stumble across an instance where I'll need to use this function, and vividly remember blogging about it in grad school.
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