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Title: Mleader text/block alignment to new UCS or view rotation?
Post by: CHulse on October 25, 2011, 08:27:51 AM

I have an old project where the mleaders were all created in WCS and aligned to it for a preliminary plan set. Now that the plan has progressed to CDs (over a year later) they have rotated the views to a new alignment for the final plans. I'd love to not have to re-do all my mleaders in the new UCS to match the new alignment.
Has anyone found a way to update existing mleaders to follow a new UCS?
Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Title: Re: Mleader text/block alignment to new UCS or view rotation?
Post by: alanjt on October 25, 2011, 09:11:54 AM

I use this quite a bit. Works on Text, MText, Blocks, MLeaders.

Title: Re: Mleader text/block alignment to new UCS or view rotation?
Post by: CHulse on October 25, 2011, 09:41:59 AM

Awesome Alan!
Works perfectly on the mleaders with text. Thanks!

However, it didn't work on the mleaders with a block as content. (I have a style that uses the built in "slot" block as content).
Any thoughts?

Title: Re: Mleader text/block alignment to new UCS or view rotation?
Post by: alanjt on October 25, 2011, 09:51:28 AM

Quote from: CHulse on October 25, 2011, 09:41:59 AM

Awesome Alan!
Works perfectly on the mleaders with text. Thanks!

However, it didn't work on the mleaders with a block as content. (I have a style that uses the built in "slot" block as content).
Any thoughts?

Yeah, I had to filter out MLeaders with block content. I never could find a rotation property. If you look at the object dump, the only availble rotation is 'TextRotation' and it just displays an error message.
You could always use the vla-rotate on those, but the results won't be the same.

Title: Re: Mleader text/block alignment to new UCS or view rotation?
Post by: CHulse on October 25, 2011, 09:56:48 AM

Ok, thanks again.

Title: Re: Mleader text/block alignment to new UCS or view rotation?
Post by: alanjt on October 25, 2011, 09:58:39 AM

Quote from: CHulse on October 25, 2011, 09:56:48 AM

Ok, thanks again.

Sorry the news isn't better.

Title: Re: Mleader text/block alignment to new UCS or view rotation?
Post by: CHulse on October 25, 2011, 10:33:16 AM

Oh I was sincere with that Thank You. Your routine saves me 75% of the work to re-do...
I posted te question to Autodesk as an issue, we'll see if they come up with a solution (ha)...

Title: Re: Mleader text/block alignment to new UCS or view rotation?
Post by: alanjt on October 25, 2011, 10:34:06 AM

Quote from: CHulse on October 25, 2011, 10:33:16 AM

Oh I was sincere with that Thank You.

I know.