Carlson 2010 w/Intellicad.
I have a problem that I can't isolate. I copy and paste a lot of text and such from other drawings and it seems that my text often wants to rotate itself to the nearest degree, even many times after setting it.
For example, when I start a drawing that won't be oriented to due North, I twist the screen usually to get the left edge of the boundary sort of aligned with the left side side of my paper/border. Well, over time, because of this quirk, I've learned to orient my border to the nearest minute (at least) and sometimes even the nearest half degree or whole degree, if possible. That way I can easily check in the properties box if something has rotated itself (happens quite a lot). Well, I copied and pasted in a whole lot of text from another drawing and it's supposed to be S 58°30'00" E and it keeps rotating itself to S 59° E.
Is there a setting that I can hit to lock this down? Or something else? I have so many little quirks and bugs that I have to deal with (mostly because I'm a self-trained / "school of hard knocks" CAD user) that I spend as much time checking on things as I do actually drafting things.
Any help is appreciated.
Carl
Not exactly what you are asking for here, but it might get you closer:
Rotate Text (RT) command. Then I often choose "A" for azimuth, then select the endpoint of a line then the other end of the line then the text I want to rotate to match that azimuth.
> Not exactly what you are asking for here, but it might get you closer:
>
> Rotate Text (RT) command. Then I often choose "A" for azimuth, then select the endpoint of a line then the other end of the line then the text I want to rotate to match that azimuth.
No, that's not it. Sorry. Might be my fault.
I want the text to be exactly parallel or perpendicular to my border. But, if the bearing of my border is something like S 57°30'00" E, it has a tendency to get bumped up to the next whole numbered bearing ( S 58°00'00" E ) thus skewing the text a bit.
Also, this is only in the multiline text.
Carl
under the edit menu, text, rotate text, twist screen, 0, pick the text.
I think what you are seeing may be your units display, rather than a rotation but I am on a diff version than you.. check to may sure your display is set correctly under settings..units control. if
for instance you set your precision to N0E you would see the rotation rounded.
> under the edit menu, text, rotate text, twist screen, 0, pick the text.
> I think what you are seeing may be your units display, rather than a rotation but I am on a diff version than you.. check to may sure your display is set correctly under settings..units control. if
> for instance you set your precision to N0E you would see the rotation rounded.
No, this is what I am talking about. It is set correctly at the moment, but often it will become S 59° E (or whatever, depends on the drawing)
The entity is the LOT 4A multiline text.
Carl
yes, I understand but change your units control settings as I have described and you will see that your rotation will show as S59E...the text doesnt change, just the display of the rotation angle.
This is a WAG, but are your tolerances/units set the same in both drawings. For instance, in the new drawing are the units set to d/m/s 0d and in the old drawing d/m/s 0d0'0". My thoughts are that if the new drawings tolerance are to the nearest degree, text that is copied into it may go to the nearest degree also.
