Pulling my hair out over this text

[kevinp]

My problem is exactly described here:

http://forums.cadalyst.com/showthread.php?t=488

 

Im fixing up a conduit riser another drafter has done, and this is bugging me. He has text that appears to be bold, but matches the same exact text style, color, lineweight, text height, everything - yet appears to be bold. If I move any of the other text, it too becomes bold. If I move that text back to its original location, it becomes normal again.

 

In the other thread I linked to, he appeared to reset the z value, but I have no idea how to do this other than type in "0" for z in properties of that text.

 

This is the answer he was provided with:

"the font display problem is caused by the

z-elev of the problem text lines not being 0. The value is close to zero,

and shows zero in the properties display. If you change this apparent zero

in properties, "Text alignment z" to 0 then the text will display okay."

[PS_Port]

Try typing ELEVATION

[kevinp]

didnt work =(

 

This wouldn't be a problem if I had drafted them...but I have no idea how this other drafter had managed to do this.

[wannabe]

When an association is broken, in hatching for example, the entity(ies) in question lose their original appearance to indicate an association is broken. I'm just wondering if it's possible that some event of this kind is taking place.

 

Another known issue that I can suggest is maybe annotation scaling. Although I use 07, so don't have access to this feature.

 

Is it permissible for you to post up the drawing, or a distilled version of it?

[wannabe]

Actually, does this just look bold or is it printing out bold?

 

Last week I genuinely had an issue where the text looked bold on screen. I was faffing with the properties, even matching other text properties, but this one MTEXT consistently appeared bold.......printed off it looked normal:?

[PS_Port]

Could you post part of the offending drawing.

 

This might help.

 

http://www.cadinfo.net/editorial/TTFacad.htm

[kevinp]

Got permission to post the drawing:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dyfnmyq42mt

 

The text that is affected is all the floor boxes labeled FB-X and text listed AV-1 and AV-2 in the drawing. The text is showing up on the screen as bold, and also prints bold when it is printed on anything less than fullsize (30x42). Keep in mind I did not do this drawing so there may be inconsistent layer names between the text (ARGH!), but Im pretty sure changing layers/color, etc did not remove the "bold" look.

[wannabe]

In the properties for each instance of the dumbfounding MTEXT I set the Z coordinate value to 0 and then matched the properties of an instance of MTEXT that looked fine; worked for all occurrences.

[wannabe]

The quickest way to rectify each drawing, that I can think of, is to use quick select to select all the text via a unique filter of criteria.

 

Then I would copy that text onto a new layer. Isolate that new layer. Select all text and globally set Z to 0 and then match properties from a good instance to all instances, using a big crossing window.

 

Then put them back on their original layer of residence.

 

Hope this helps. If you find a quicker way please let me know.

[kevinp]

Thanks alot! I just went through and set all the text to a layer "AV-TEXT" (which is what we used for our standard misc. text). I set all the z-coord to 0 and set the style to be right and it worked fine. I just did CTRL+A, selected my text, put it on a new layer, set everything to "by layer" and changed z value. I didnt need to match text properties from another to have it right. I also noticed that whoever drafted it also had blocks on weird z-coord values, lines on z values - all these weird placements for just a simple 2D drawing.....

 

We had a pretty big talk at work about standardizing layers and whatnot (even though there is no standard for AV). Its starting to really become a problem when people go off on their own and draw a bunch of crap on random layers that make no sense, or have layers with very similar names.

[GDog]

Flatten command? Would that wipe out the z value?

[Seneb]

I just had this problem. I selected everything and changed the z to 12". Then deselected everything, selected everything again, and set the z back to 0". It now looks fine. Very strange.

 

I used CHANGE > PROPERTIES > ELEVATION

[skipsophrenic]

Just givin u the heads-up here, it's not just u're text that's on a z elevation,

There's a bunch of the wires and red boxes at a higher level as well, to see what I mean go VIEW > 3D VIEWS > (pick any of isometric views)