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Title: Self scaling text in a viewport
Post by: MSTG007 on June 01, 2006, 03:31:24 PM: Anyone have a good idea how to have self scaling text in a viewport?

If i change the viewport scale, the text would scale to make up the differences?

thanks
Title: Re: Self scaling text in a viewport
Post by: David Hall on June 01, 2006, 04:26:52 PM: I think I could do that, but how would you keep it lined up straight and not on top of each other?
Title: Re: Self scaling text in a viewport
Post by: CADaver on June 01, 2006, 05:48:46 PM: Put it in paperspace and stays the same size all the time.
Title: Re: Self scaling text in a viewport
Post by: ronjonp on June 01, 2006, 05:54:03 PM: Quote from: CADaver on June 01, 2006, 05:48:46 PM
Put it in paperspace and stays the same size all the time.

Didn't see that one coming...... :-D
Title: Re: Self scaling text in a viewport
Post by: Bob Wahr on June 01, 2006, 06:09:31 PM: but doesn't stay positioned relative to mspace objects.

MSTG007, I don't think you're going to find what you want. I have no doubt that Cmdr. Duh, USN Ret. or several other people here could write a program to scale text when a viewport changes size. It would still require quite a bit of cleanup and I don't think that it would save you any time over doing it manually. In fact, it might actually cost you time in the long run. It would be nice though, text and blocks scaled and fit as needed.
Title: Re: Self scaling text in a viewport
Post by: Dinosaur on June 01, 2006, 06:26:13 PM: Properly created Civil 3D 2007 text labels will also do this if you really want to throw time and money at the problem.
Title: Re: Self scaling text in a viewport
Post by: Bryco on June 02, 2006, 12:57:02 AM: I use a vba sub to do similar. I select an area and all the text mtext,leaders dims ref blocks get resized. It's handy, but like has been said you still have to go in close and adjust to make it look nice. You also need to know the name of the ref blocks to make it work. I'll post something if you are interested.
Title: Re: Self scaling text in a viewport
Post by: Gliderider on June 02, 2006, 07:29:08 AM: There's the scaletext command, not automatic though; you have to select the text you want to scale.