Don't ask me how to get to it any other way. I'm going to go into Properties, and you'll see if I slide this down, there is a new option inside of AutoCAD 2016, only in Properties. I'm going to select this mtext over here. It's got kind of an interesting way of going about it. The last one is only for those of you who have AutoCAD 2016. There you'll see that I very quickly, very easily now have a boundary around my text. I'm in for rectangles, and I want the same distance all the way around it. Here you'll see - enclose text with circles, slots, or rectangles. So I have complete control of the size of that rectangle that's going to go around my text. That's a little bit easier than using the Rectangle command. You'll see that it asks you for an offset factor. I'm going to go ahead and select this text over here. It allows you to do rectangles, and it allows you to do slots around objects.

But in reality, it will let you do other things as well. Okay, let's take a look at an Express Tool that may not be very obvious because the name of the Express Tool is TCircle, which makes you think that it's only going to allow you to put a circle around objects. Makes it a little tougher for you to control the exact distance the rectangle is from the text.

Of course, you can control the width, you can control the layer, so on and so forth. Maybe not the fastest or easiest, but by all means, there's nothing wrong with simply going into the Rectangle command and drawing a good old rectangle around your text. The first way is probably the most logical. That's something that we end up having to do from time to time. Today I'm going to be sharing with you three different ways to put a boundary around your text - three different ways of going about it. So that would mean that it is chilly in Chile.

I'm coming to you from Santiago, Chile, where it is really quite cold. Thank you so much for joining me for another AutoCAD tip, courtesy of the fabulous Cadalyst magazine. If you’ve ever needed to put a frame around your AutoCAD text objects, then you’ll appreciate this quick tip from Autodesk Evangelist Lynn Allen who shows you three very different ways to accomplish that very goal - all with different advantages! Three Ways to Put a Frame around Your Text in AutoCAD 27 Sep, 2015

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