lenmac Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 I am drawing in AutoCAD 2000 LT and have created a centreline plot of a highway structure using World coordinates. I then zoom in to specific Work Points to create the individual components. In Model space, I select Tools, New UCS, Object and then select the axis perpendicular to the centreline as the new UCS. I type PLAN and the Model reorients to horizontal. All of my drawing looks great until I attempt to plot it in Layout. The text all looks geat in Model space and in Paper space, UNITL I try to Plot the drawing (either to the plotter or to Preview), then the text skews off of the dimension lines. The only way I can get the text to line up with the drawing is to set the UCS to something other than horizontal. I have attached three samples of the same drawing. Sample 1 is plotted using the desired UCS - object horizontal to the paper. The text all prints skewed to the dimension lines:x. Samples 2 and 3 are plotted with a UCS a few degrees either side of horizontal. Magically, the text all lines up with the deminsion lines! What am I doing wrong? Pier 5 sample 1.pdf Pier 5 sample 2.pdf Pier 5 sample 3.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GE13579 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Can you post the DWG? It's hard to diagnose anything from the PDF, just that it confirms what you're saying? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBC Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I have a feeling that the Text Style is using an annotative scaling feature; part of which contains the function to have the text to match the orientation to layout. Investigate it further by using STYLE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenmac Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 GE13579: The drawing is 1.5MB - too big to post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GE13579 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Have you tried NBC's suggestion? I'm not sure but did v2000 have the PROPERTIES command? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBC Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Hmm, time I had a rethink - Annotative scaling features didn't arrive til 2007/2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GE13579 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Perhaps you can just delete and purge all but 1 dimension and post that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenmac Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 NBC: On the Text Style pop-up screen, there are two selections: Font, where I can change the font (set to Standard which is Arial), font style (regular, bold or italic), and height (default set to 0.000) of the text; and Effects, with check boxes labelled Upside Down, Backwards, and Width Factor (default set to 1.000) & Obliquing Angle (default set to 0). Perhaps ACAD LT does not have an annotative scaling feature(??) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GE13579 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Lenmac, NBC's confirmed that wasn't available in 2000. Can you minimise the drawing to just a dimension and post it so we can have a look? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenmac Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 GE13579: I've been trying to get the drawing to a size that will post (deleted everything but one dimension line, purged all layers, fonts, etc. still over 800Kb ???! I don't know what information gets tagged on to ACAD files but they just keep growing) I have attached another simple drawing with the same problem. I inserted a dimension line and over-wrote the text with a long string of characters to enhance and demonstrate the problem. In Layout view, I changed the UCS to a random angle. It still looks fine until I try to plot the drawing, either to Preview or the Plotter. Have a look.... Pier 6 Caissons x.dwg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GE13579 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I've plotted to PDF and it looks good to me... hopefully someone will be along who knows more than me. I'll keep thinking in the meantime... Pier 6 Caissons.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBC Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Text is parallel to the dimension line, here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GE13579 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Hmmm looking more into it by turning off 'Text inside align' seems to replicate the problem... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GE13579 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Try DIMTXT system variable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBC Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Hmmm looking more into it by turning off 'Text inside align' seems to replicate the problem... Otherwise known as DIMTIH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GE13579 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Ahhh cheers NBC just been playing with DIMTXT and couldn't understand it (it's what comes up in the tooltip )... ignore dimtxt!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GE13579 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Hmmm DIMTIH doesn't seem to work either? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenmac Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 GE13579: I can't figure out how you got this to plot correctly to a pdf file(???) At first, I thought perhaps it might be as simple as a bad printer driver. However, I tried to print it to a pdf creator and got the same result - looks fine in the Layout but skewed text in the Full Preview and the Plot. I tried turning off the "text inside align" and this skewed the text even in Model space, even though the UCS was set to World. The mystery deepens.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GE13579 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 All I can think is it must be something to do with local settings (?). Is the problem the same with any drawing? BTW I needed Text inside align turned on- when I turned it off it skewed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GE13579 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Does the same happen if you dimension in Paper Space? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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