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Short description

🧩 CopyClipboardText is the CADforum CCText v1.0 VLX utility for mass copying selected AutoCAD drawing text to the Windows Clipboard.
📋 Selected line text paragraph text and optionally block attributes can be transferred to Word or other Windows applications with normal Ctrl+V paste.
↕️ Clipboard text can be ordered by selection order X position Y position or column order before it is copied.

Command:

Main command: CCTEXT
Load method: APPLOAD
Published version: 1.0 dated 15.12.2016

Description:

📦 The CADforum download identifies CCText as a compiled VLX LISP application for AutoCAD.
📝 The utility mass copies selected drawing texts from the current AutoCAD drawing to the Windows Clipboard.
🔤 Supported documented content includes single line text paragraph text and optionally block attributes.
🎛️ The Attribs option controls whether attributes are accepted into the clipboard export.
🖱️ Default output order follows the order in which text objects are selected.
↔️ X ordering sorts selected text left to right.
↕️ Y ordering sorts selected text top down.
📊 Column ordering sorts top down and then left to right by columns.
🔎 The tool can preset automatic replacement of a selected substring in transferred text.
↵ MTEXT paragraph control codes are normally reformatted so the paragraph separator becomes a new line.
⚙️ Setting _CCtextNoReformat to T disables the automatic paragraph control code replacement.
🌐 Source reference: https://www.cadforum.cz/en/download.asp?file=CCText
🌐 Functional description reference: https://www.cadforum.cz/en/copy-multiple-dwg-drawing-texts-to-the-windows-clipboard-tip11223

Helper function: (if any)

APPLOAD loads the compiled VLX application.
_CCtextNoReformat controls whether MTEXT paragraph control codes are converted to line breaks.

Functionalities:

✅ Mass clipboard copy – copies many drawing text values in one operation.
✅ Single line text – supports standard AutoCAD text objects.
✅ Paragraph text – supports MTEXT style paragraph content.
✅ Optional block attributes – includes attributes when Attribs is enabled.
✅ Selection order – keeps text in the picked order.
✅ X sorting – sorts text left to right.
✅ Y sorting – sorts text top down.
✅ Column sorting – sorts top down and then left to right by column.
✅ Substring replacement – can replace a predefined substring before clipboard transfer.
✅ MTEXT paragraph conversion – normally converts paragraph control codes to new lines.
✅ Reformat override variable – _CCtextNoReformat disables paragraph reformatting.
✅ Windows Clipboard output – supports normal paste into external applications.

Result:

🎯 The result is ordered plain drawing text content placed on the Windows Clipboard for use in Word spreadsheets editors or other Windows applications.

Images, animations etc.

XAML code:

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        <Bold>Function Syntax: CopyClipboardText</Bold>
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        <Bold>Version: 1.0 Date: 04.09.2018 2:45:01PM</Bold>
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        <Run Foreground="White">🧩 CopyClipboardText is the CADforum CCText v1.0 VLX utility for mass copying selected AutoCAD drawing text to the Windows Clipboard.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">📋 Selected line text paragraph text and optionally block attributes can be transferred to Word or other Windows applications with normal Ctrl+V paste.</Run>
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            <Run Foreground="DodgerBlue">Function Syntax</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">Main command: </Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">Load method: </Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">Published version: </Run>
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            <Run Foreground="Orange">1.0 dated 15.12.2016</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">📦 The CADforum download identifies CCText as a compiled VLX LISP application for AutoCAD.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">📝 The utility mass copies selected drawing texts from the current AutoCAD drawing to the Windows Clipboard.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">🔤 Supported documented content includes single line text paragraph text and optionally block attributes.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">🎛️ The Attribs option controls whether attributes are accepted into the clipboard export.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">🖱️ Default output order follows the order in which text objects are selected.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">↵ MTEXT paragraph control codes are normally reformatted so the paragraph separator becomes a new line.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">• Load the CCText VLX with APPLOAD.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">• Run CCTEXT.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">• Select the required drawing text objects.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">• Enable Attribs when block attributes should also be copied.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">• Choose the required text ordering method.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">• Optionally configure substring replacement.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">✅ </Run>
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            <Run Foreground="LimeGreen">Mass clipboard copy</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White"> - supports MTEXT style paragraph content.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">✅ </Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White"> - sorts text top down.</Run>
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            <Run Foreground="DarkRed">This package is based on the CADforum download and tip pages because the compiled CopyClipboardText VLX source was not supplied.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">⚠️ </Run>
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            <Run Foreground="DarkRed">The CADforum download lists CCText v1.0 dated 15 December 2016 and file size 15 kB.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">⚠️ </Run>
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            <Run Foreground="DarkRed">The documented AutoCAD command is CCTEXT.</Run>
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        <Run Foreground="White">⚠️ </Run>
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            <Run Foreground="DarkRed">Only functionality explicitly described by CADforum is included in this package.</Run>
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