EXTRACT ONLY THE "TEXTSIZE"/"TEXTHEIGHT" VALUE FROM A STRING OF TEXT

[NIEKO]

EXAMPLE 01 - 5mm HIGH TEXT

"100mm THICK MILD STEEL FLAT BAR"

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above is a string of text on a drawing ------ question is as follows____how can I extract or obtain (with a lisp function) only the "textsize"/"textheight" value from the string to

use the value in a lisp routine

 

appreciated

NIEKO

 

[SLW210]

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[Emmanuel Delay]

Open a notepad document, copy/paste this code, save as print_text_height.lsp (feel free to rename, but keep the .lsp, and make sure ther's no .txt at the end of that).

Drag the .lsp file in your Autocad active document

Type command GTH, press enter

 

(defun c:gth ( / th)
  (setq th (cdr (assoc 40 (entget (car (entsel "\nSelect TEXT object: "))))))
  (princ "\nText height: ")
  (princ th)
  (princ)
)

[NIEKO]

Emmanuel

Thanks a lot. I really appretiate it

 

NIEKO

[BIGAL]

Another same thing using v lisp

 

(setq obj (vlax-ename->vla-object (car (entsel "pick text object"))))
(setq ht (vla-get-height obj))

(alert (strcat "height is  " (rtos ht 2 1)))

[NIEKO]

BIGAL

Thanks a lot for your help and input

I appreciate it very much

 

I would like to compliment all you guys for an excellent CAD forum

 

 

NIEKO

[ronjonp]

If you want the actual height of the text in the drawing use the TEXTBOX function. A string with the same height like "1234" will not be the same physical height as "{1234,".

 

Try it

(if (setq e (car (entsel "\nPick text: ")))
  (print (abs (apply '- (mapcar 'cadr (textbox (entget e))))))
)

 

[BIGAL]

Good one ronjonp,  don't forget droppers, superscript, subscript.

 

Jj Ggx²