Template MText font | cad 09 mechanical

Hello: I created a template for my application (written in autocad .net api). At any rate, the template has MText on it and it's in romans font.

but, a user told me that when they generate it on their machine, it's in Arial. I had her send it to me and when i generate it, it's in arial as well.

when i do a new drawing w/ this template, it show an entirely differnt font. in short, none of them have displayed in romans like i would think.

is there some setting in cad that is set to default mtext?

thanks for your help,

Proctor

Hello: I created a template for my application (written in autocad .net api). At any rate, the template has MText on it and it's in romans font.

 

but, a user told me that when they generate it on their machine, it's in Arial. I had her send it to me and when i generate it, it's in arial as well.

 

when i do a new drawing w/ this template, it show an entirely differnt font. in short, none of them have displayed in romans like i would think.

 

is there some setting in cad that is set to default mtext?

 

thanks for your help,

Proctor

What is the name of the text Style you have romans.shx assigned to?

rkent: thank you for your reply. I have standard style assigned to my Mtext.

Proctor

rkent: thank you for your reply. I have standard style assigned to my Mtext.

 

Proctor

For the most part everyone should leave Standard alone and create their own style names and then these problems are avoided. The receiving party you spoke of has standard defined for arial so it is no surprise that it changes.

I use the first letters of the company name-romans for my naming convention, most any thing will work pretty well.

Makes sense ... I went in and created a new standard and set the font as Romans and then clicked set current; however, when i generated a new layout via my application, it still showed it set to Standard / txt, for Style/font.

i'm now thinking that perhaps I should do something in my code when i'm generating the layout.

thank you for explaining this to me. I will look at my code to see if i can somehow set the style for the layout there.

Proctor

You will have to select all text and mtext and change the style. You can do this with properties on one drawing very easily. If there are multiple drawings some automation will be in order.

I have a file from another source that could be easily modified to help. Let me know.

rkent - that did the trick!!!

now, since every user uses this same template, do i have each user create a style w/ the same name/font as i created and used for the template?

thanks,

Proctor

Yes, but ideally you would have one or a few common templates that everyone would use to start new drawings. These would be located in a location on the server and you would point to the most common one to use in Options, Files, Template Settings, Default Template File Location, and also Default Template File Name for Qnew.

they all start their drawings using what ever default template they have it set to; however, they use a command i wrote that opens a new template (off the server) and places what ever they select into this new template - so this is the template I modified.

I'm still slightly confused...and i apologize for being redundant, but why can't everyone just set their standard style to the same font? wouldn't that work the same?

thank you for all your help.

they all start their drawings using what ever default template they have it set to; however, they use a command i wrote that opens a new template (off the server) and places what ever they select into this new template - so this is the template I modified.

 

I'm still slightly confused...and i apologize for being redundant, but why can't everyone just set their standard style to the same font? wouldn't that work the same?

 

thank you for all your help.

Yep that will work. I was just trying to point out the problems with using Standard Text Style. Many offices avoid those problems by using their own style names.

Inserting a drawing (or template) into another one will not change a text style font setting.

The more control you add for things like this the easier it is to comply with office standards.

thanks again for all your help.

Proctor