With our Real Text (RT) command, you can now type text right into your drawing onscreen! No need to watch a "bounding box" and try and guess what the text string will look like. It's intended as a direct replacement for the Text Line command --you may want to assign the 2L shortcut TL to our tool.

You can also edit text onscreen, by selecting an already placed text line and typing RT. A dialog box (shown below) will appear, with all text highlighted (same as in Text Editor dialog. A Windows convention). You can edit in the dialog, or you can edit directly onscreen. Note the vertical cursor in the picture --it's at the end of the word "sample" both in the dialog and onscreen (and is a blinking cursor onscreen so it's easy to see).

The reason we provide both is that when you edit onscreen you must use the arrow (direction) keys to navigate the text string (the Home and End keys also work). For many folks that's fine. In the dialog, you can use Windows conventions --for example you can use the mouse to highlight a whole string of words, and Cut, Copy and Paste them. You have a choice to work either way.

Our dialog is much smaller than the Text Editor in Visual CADD, so that more of your drawing is visible while editing. And if you prefer to only edit text onscreen, the dialog can be dragged off to the side or onto the status bar so that only a small portion of it is left showing in the drawing --you can retrieve it if needed, but otherwise it is out of your way. The dialog will "remember" it's location the next time you edit with RT.

Real Text supports Single Unit Fractions --in Visual CADD they only work with dimensions and not with the text tools.