Stop text appearing massive...

[MrTapir]

Hello. When I'm in a drawing and draw a text box, sometimes the text appears when I write it to be the right font size for the drawing, but then clicking out of the box the finished text is absolutely tiny. To get the text to appear at an appropriate size it has to be written at a huge size that covers the screen and the only way to get out of this is to do zoom extents.

 

Is there a way to set it so that it can be written at the size it will then appear?

 

Thanks

 

Rich

[Tiger]

set TEXTSIZE (type it) to the appropriate size. Or set the Text size on the Text Style to something appropriate

[MrTapir]

set TEXTSIZE (type it) to the appropriate size. Or set the Text size on the Text Style to something appropriate

 

So is there a way of relating the text size to the scale of the drawing, like if you know what scale you are in then can you work out what size different fonts will come out?

[MrTapir]

Btw I've just taken your advice and its all good so thanks for that

[Tiger]

If you use annotative text (if its availible for you (I will not swear that it is there in 2008 LT) you find a Annotative tick-box in the Text Style dialogue box) can set the Paper text height instead and assign one or more scales to the drawing so depending on what scale you use in your Viewports, your text will be scaled automatically.

 

There is also a variable called DIMSCALE that you can use - the Help explains pretty well what it does.

[Dana W]

Whether or not your text height is correct for whatever scale you are plotting to, entering text while zoomed out causes AutoCAD to give you a temporary large text box so you can actually see what you are typing. Sometimes it covers up the entire screen. It is just the way it works. If you want a smaller mtext box while entering text just zoom in closer to where you are actually putting the text.