title issues

Hello,

I am trying to make a general title block for our company. I can do it just fine in portrait but landscape is driving me nuts. What I did was opened two autocad09 drawings, one in portrait and one in landscape. I copied the title block from the one in portrait and pasted it in the one in landscape. I then selected the entire title block which is now in the landscape dwg and right clicked and rotated it 90 degrees. Everything is ok but now if I want to type on it I am going to have to rotate that and move it onto the lines. THere must be an easier way. Please help.

tnx

I guess I'm just used to seeing titleblocks that are rectangles that sit down in the lower right-hand corner of the sheet no matter if the sheet is in portrait or landscape orientation. Did your titleblock happen to run up the right hand side of your portrait version? Is that why it had to be rotated when you copied it over to landscape orientation?

How about you post what you got so we can see.

What is the rotation angle of your text set to? 90 degrees?

rotation angle of text. hmm that sounds like thats the fix. my drawing exceeds the limit to attach in the forum. I had my title block running on the entire bottom of the page in portrait. In lanscape I want it to be on the same side so it would be on the left or right in landscape mode. Not sure how to decrease file size for you to see but i will owrk with text angles and see what happens. thanks for the idea.

how oyu change text angle? oblique? If so it cant be 90.

You can attach it as a zip file. Or, if you're really quick about it, I can PM you with my email address and you can send a copy to me. I'm running 2010 at the moment. Your choice.

yea, I think you have to make two different title blocks. One for portrait and the other for landscape. If you make one for portrait and change paper size the title will fit to that scale. But if you change from portrait to landscape everything gets messed and you cant format it to fit the same. Alls well, I will just do it this way.

I know that if you use single line text (not MText) one of the options is an override that allows you to specify the text rotation angle. The default is but the user can set it to something other than that (like 90).

When you say titleblock you must also be incorporating the border aren't you? That's why you have fit up problems.

The size of my titleblock in both portrait and landscape does not change.