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Moving Text to Elevation

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Move AutoCAD text objects at their insertion point to the elevation of their numeric text values.

Use this command when you need to use a TEXT object in the drawing as surface point data.

You can select AutoCAD numeric TEXT and MTEXT objects in the drawing and move each object at its insertion point to the elevation corresponding to its numeric text value.

To move a text object to the elevation value

  1. Select a surface. On the Surface tab, click Surface Tools panelMove Text To Elevation .At the Command prompt, enter MoveTextToElevation.
  2. Select the text object in the drawing or use any of the standard AutoCAD object selection methods.
  3. Click Enter.

If the value of a text object is a real number, the text object is moved to the elevation corresponding to the numeric text value.

Ribbon

Select a surface. Surface tab Surface Tools panel Move Text To Elevation

Menu

Surfaces menu UtilitiesMove Text To Elevation

Command Line

MoveTextToElevation


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