To Work With Changing Attribute Text Size and Style

Use the Change Attribute Size Utility

  1. Click Schematic tabEdit Components panelModify Attributes drop-downChange Attribute Size. Find
  2. Select your new attribute size by either picking on a similar text or attribute entity or by manually entering the size value into the edit box.
  3. Enter the new width factor into the edit box. Make sure that you click to apply the width.
  4. Select to change the attribute name by picking individual attributes, by type, or by typing a specific attribute name.
    • If you chose to select one attribute at a time, select the attributes in the drawing. The attribute text automatically changes to the new attribute size.
    • If you chose to change all attributes of a certain type, select an example attribute and window the entire drawing. It finds and adjusts all attributes of the same name to your specified size.
    • If you chose to type in an attribute name, type the name in the edit box. (Wildcards are allowed.) You can include a series of attribute names to match by separating each attribute name with a semicolon.
  5. Press OK and window the entire drawing.
  6. Press Enter.

Use the Project-Wide Utilities

  1. Click Project tabProject Tools panelUtilities. Find
  2. In the Project-Wide Utilities dialog box, Change Attribute section, select Change Attribute Size and click Setup.
  3. In the Project-Wide Attribute Size Change dialog box, select the attribute types to change.
  4. Enter the text height and optional width factor and click OK.
  5. In the Project-Wide Utilities dialog box, click OK.
  6. In the Batch Process Drawings dialog box, select to process the project and click OK.
  7. In the Select Drawings to Process dialog box, select the drawings to process and click OK.

    AutoCAD Electrical processes the selected drawings and adjusts the target attributes to the specified value.

Use the Squeeze and Stretch Text Utilities

Use the Squeeze attribute tool to compress an attribute to make it fit into a tight spot (such as between closely spaced components). Use the Stretch attribute tool to expand an attribute. Each click on the attribute dynamically changes the width factor of the attribute by 5%.

  1. Click Schematic tabEdit Components panelModify Attributes drop-downSqueeze Attribute/Text. Find
  2. Select the attribute text to change.

    The text is automatically compressed.

  1. Click Schematic tab Edit Components panelModify Attributes drop-downStretch Attribute/Text. Find
  2. Select the attribute text to change.

    The text automatically stretches.

Change Attribute Text Style

Use this tool to adjust the font assignment (either project-wide or drawing-wide) to the text style “WD” or “WD_IEC.”

  1. Click Project tabProject Tools panelUtilities. Find
  2. In the Project-Wide Utilities dialog box, Change Attribute section, select Change Style and click Setup.
  3. In the Project-Wide AutoCAD Electrical Style Change dialog box, select the font name to apply to text style WD or WD_IEC and click OK.
  4. In the Project-Wide Utilities dialog box, click OK.
  5. In the Batch Process Drawings dialog box, select to process the project and click OK.
  6. In the Select Drawings to Process dialog box, select to process specific files or click Do All to process all of the drawings in the active project. Click OK.

    AutoCAD Electrical processes the selected drawings and adjusts the text style WD or WD_IEC to the specified font name.