Good Question: Multiline Attributes

Today’s good question comes from Tim. He asked what happens when you take a multiline attribute from AutoCAD 2008 and open it in AutoCAD 2007.

When you create a multiline attribute in AutoCAD 2008 and then open the drawing in an earlier release of AutoCAD, AutoCAD automatically converts the multiline attribute to traditional attributes based on the wrapping of the mtext object. For example, if the multiline attribute in AutoCAD 2008 includes 3 lines of text, it will be displayed as three individual attributes when opened in an earlier release; automatically maintaining the visual fidelity.

The following images show how the attribute editor looks in AutoCAD 2008 versus AutoCAD 2007. Notice that AutoCAD 2007 automatically increments the attribute names.