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Special Character Codes for Text

By Donnie Gladfelter on June 12, 2006

These codes stem back to the “Old School” days of AutoCAD in DOS, but are each still useful today. All of these codes still work with DTEXT using the standard AutoCAD fonts. Likewise, all but the %%u and %%o codes work with the newer MTEXT.

%%d = degree
%%c = circle diameter
%%p = plus/minus tolerance
%%u = begin underline of text. Repeat to end underline.
%%o = begin overline of text. Repeat to end.

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Donnie Gladfelter

Donnie is author of the upcoming book AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT: No Experience Required, a columnist for AUGIWorld Magazine, Autodesk University speaker, and member of the AUGI Board of Directors.

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  1. ANTHONY
    ANTHONY
    May 6, 2009 at 6:27 am |

    thank you Joanne

  2. ANTHONY
    ANTHONY
    April 28, 2009 at 12:32 pm |

    DOES ANYONE KNOW THE CODE FOR AN OHM SYMBOL?

    1. Joanne
      Joanne
      May 5, 2009 at 8:37 pm |

      the text string is

      Ohm = \U+2126

  3. tommy
    tommy
    April 9, 2009 at 10:09 am |

    Found it. Thanks!

  4. tommy
    tommy
    April 3, 2009 at 1:26 pm |

    Donnie,
    Wasn’t there one for the Center Line symbol as well?

    Tommy

    1. Donnie Gladfelter
      Donnie Gladfelter
      April 8, 2009 at 5:05 pm |

      Tommy – You might be thinking of the MTEXT editor. There you can find a long list of symbols, including one for center line.

      1. Scott Beattie
        Scott Beattie
        February 11, 2010 at 9:48 pm |

        I have used the special charater codes many times. The issue I run into with Mtext, is that when I add the center line symbol, it does not appear as the same font style and scale. I have to highlight the center line symbol and scale it up to match the height of font style all ready in uses. I can live with that. It really becomes a problem when I need the center line symbol in a civil 3D object. I can add the center line symbol with the text, but I can not scale the center line symbol to match the height of the text all ready in uses. It would be nice if the symbol would just match the font style being used. Do you have any suggestions?

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