Wednesday, January 11, 2017

How to mirror texts without mirroring texts

How to mirror texts without mirroring texts

Sometimes when you use AutoCAD you may need to mirror objects. But once you mirror the object with texts you may see that all the texts in the object are also mirrored. But you don't need to mirror the texts. Now lets see how to fix it. Look at the picture below. This is the object you need to mirror. 

Once you use mirror icon to do it the result would be like this.

This is not what you want. You need to mirror it without mirroring texts. 

Here is the solution

Type MIRRTEXT command in your command line and hit Enter key. Here is the picture for those who cannot understand. 


Now you can see that the value of MIRRTEXT is 1. Look at the picture below. 


Now set this value to 0 and hit enter. 

Again select the object you need to mirror and mirror it as usual by using mirror icon. Here is the result.