Text in Rotated viewports

[jquackenbush]

I am working on a project that has around 6 different roads, all at different angles from one another. The problem I hae is when I start to create the lay-outs, I use a rotated viewport so that the roadway will be horizontal across the page. I then rotate the text so that it will be horizontal or at 90 º within the viewport. This has worked fine in the past.

 

With this project I have multiple areas that are sharing 2 or 3 different viewports, therefore, the text alignment for one does not match the other.

 

Is there a way to associate the alignment of the text to the viewport? Or will I have to copy the drawing multiple times (one for each viewport)?

 

Thanks

[ScribbleJ]

While in Model Space, save a view for each of the viewports by enter V at the command line. Make sure that you rotate the view to the correct angle (using the Twist option of the DVIEW command, or by your preferred method) before you save the view. Once your ready to add text for a specific viewport then use View to set it to that rotation or for the specific viewport you want to work in. Within the View dialog box double click on the view you want to use then click on OK.

 

Edit:

 

I forgot to add that setting your UCS to view will be necessary as well for each rotated view to make the text orient correctly.

Edited February 7, 2012 by ScribbleJ

[jquackenbush]

Putting the text at the proper rotation is not the problem.

sorry about the image

 

 

If you can zoom in on the image you will see how there is text that is cut off. I cant move the text in model because the it wont fit right in another viewport. is there a way to rotate it within the current viewport, or even delete it so that it can not be seen in certain viewports?

[ScribbleJ]

Ahh, a picture is worth 1000 words as the saying goes. I see the crux of the matter now.

 

I would suggest making a different annotation layer for that viewport and freezing the others. This creates the problem of having duplicate annotations though but sometimes you have to do things you don't want to in order to achieve the results you are looking for.

 

This is where Layer States Manager will come in handy. It will create overrides for the viewports you need to customize.

[DANIEL]

having seen some of these files I agree with scribblej, though I might add that putting the stuff in model on a none plotting layer and then simply annotating what you need in PS on another. all that text that gets put into a drawing like this just comes out as a black blob on site plans .......