AutoCAD 2010/2011/2012 DWG Format

[#1]

Hi everyone

Some of you may have encountered the old chestnut that is arial narrow and other truetype fonts displaying too bold, and the usual problem of them having z values, fixed by flattening the text.

I have this problem but there is a twist to the story - all my text has been well and truly flattened. When I print from model space, it looks fine, from paper space through the viewport = too fat. This is where it gets really strange. When I change space on text (which had a z value of 0 in model space) to paper space, it suddenly has a z value of 1058.322. If I then set the z value to 0, it looks fine. Following this, if I then change space back into model space, the z value leaps from 0 to 569.161 (half of 1058.322, as the scale of viewport is 1:500(m), or 2:1) and is too fat again, and stays fat when I reset to 0. I have checked the center z value of the viewport and it is 0, and the ucs in paper space is world.

I am a little bamboozled - Any suggestions?

cheers

[#2]

Hi

Did you get any resolution to this? I'm having the exact same problem which I can't find an answer for anywhere on the internet. I too stumbled on changing the space of the text and how AutoCAD then gives it a z value.

Does anyone have a solution?

Cheers.

[#3]

SET ucs world and plan world then wblock the data to a new file and see if this fixes the issue.

don't ask why, just do it..... might work might not

[#4]

Your viewport uses a different UCS other than WCS?

[#5]

Thanks guys, although I've just managed to solve it. In my case the 'target z value' was non-zero. Corrected by entering 3dorbit in the viewport and changing the z target value in the properties box to 0.  While doing a wblock of the drawing often works, it's always good to know what actually causes the problem.

[#6]

Success!

Top stuff mrdrafty, that was driving me insane!

Thanks everyone