Applying Annotative to General Labels

[Hardney]

Hi,

 

I wonder if there is a way to merge the Annotatives properties applied to a leader text to a Label created via the General menu>Add Labels>Note?

 

Here is why: The best thing about the annotatives is that you can apply several annotation scales to a single object i.e. a text, a leader text... then select the prefered scale in the selected viewports.

 

The best thing about Note Labels is that they can follow the rotation of the viewport in order to always remain at 0d0'0'' if properly settled in the style manager. But, when it comes of having several viewports in the same drawing the notes labels will always appear at the same size so, if you have a viewport at a 1:500 and that the style is made to let you have a text of 2.03mm of height, which is appropriate, well in the other viewport where the scale is a 1:1500, your text will still be the same size, but 3 times too big for the drawing.

 

I know that I can create a new style for every scales but this can take a while and I think that if it was possible to add annotation scales to the note labels this would facilitate the task. So, is there a way to do this?

 

Please tell me if I am not clear.

 

Thank you

 

Hardney

[sinc]

Your question is rather confusing...

 

To answer your direct question, Annotative objects and the Annotation Scale are completely separate from C3D labels. You can use Annotative text styles in C3D labels, but the "annotative" part is ignored, and the size is controlled by the C3D style settings.

 

However, having said that, you should not need to create a General Note label style for each scale. You should only need one label style, and it should work at any scale. With C3D labels, you specify the printed height of the text, and it the text will be that height regardless of viewport scale. So if you define a style with text height set to 2.03mm, that style will print with text that is 2.03mm in the 1:500 viewport, and it will also print with text that is 2.03mm in the 1:1500 viewport.

 

As far as Annotative text and leaders, you can also set them to rotate with the view. This is an option in the Style. However, this feature can only be seen in paperspace - in modelspace, the Annotative objects always orient to the UCS that is current when they are drawn. Unfortunately, though, Annotative objects do not have an equivalent to C3D's "Flip Plan Readable" option.

[Hardney]

Well, even though the confusion you managed to answer properly to my questions.

 

You actually confirmed what I thought and read yesterday, that those don't work together.

 

Unfortunately, I just think that those two should be merged in some way to let you have a single leader-leader text instead of having to copy all your notes to all the style/scale needed that, by the way, if the style is changed, reset and go back to «Note» which is rather annoying when you got plenty of notes to change. But hey... gotta do what has to be done.

 

Just hope they're looking to do something with that issue because I know that I'm not the only one who's got that «problem».

 

Thanks again.