My bars scale looks fine on the drawing, but in the print preview and plot the scale blocks are not filled in. I'm using CS2011.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Command: textfill (maybe?)
On my system the command for Text Fill is located on the print/plot configuration screen that pops up to select print options.
For some reason, when my updates arrive and/or when I restart my computer, that and other personalized commands keep resetting.
On the subject of bar scale, here's something that I found out. I notified one of their tech support team member. He replicated this quirk on his own computer at that time. I believe this will get fixed on the next release.
When you insert a bar scale, the software provides the user the choice to enter the value of the scale. For example, if your drawing is 1:1000, the value of that scale is in the field by default. Often time, what I find is the bar scale is much too big for the drawing. Maybe it's only with metric drawings, I do not know. So, instead of inserting the scale at 1:1000, I insert at 1:200 (for example).
Now here's the little something.
Once the bar scale is inserted in the drawing (at that example scale of 1:200), the horizontal scale of the drawing (under the settings menu) is changed to the scale value that was keyed in (the 1:200).The user has to reset the value of the scale (1:1000 in this example) to its original chosen value.
It took me a long time to figure out why the post-bar scale tasks would have scaling issues. To make a story short, when you insert a bar scale; whatever value you give it becomes the drawing scale too.
You might try checking/setting these values (note that some variables would need to be accessed through Settings -- System Variable Editor):
SHADEMODE is set to 2D
SHADEDGE is set to 3
TEXTFILL is set to 1
FILLMODE is set to 1
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Ladd Nelson
Those solutions did not work.
My Carlson Survey 2011 with embeded AutoCAD does not have Textfill or Fillmode?
Thanks
Try typing textfill or fillmode at the command prompt.
> My Carlson Survey 2011 with embeded AutoCAD does not have Textfill or Fillmode?
For some of those "hard to reach" places, check the System Variable Editor:
If you'd care to issue the "Save" command from the System Variable Editor and send me the resulting PVF and also your DWG file, I'll see if I can replicate and find the proper solution.
lnelsonATcarlsonswDOTcom
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Ladd Nelson