Annotation Scale Dialog Box MISSING...

[Anonymous]

Good Morning...

I have 2 computers with Windows 7 OS and 2011 ACA installed with a custom profile set current.

When I select annotative text, right click and select ADD/DELETE SCALE, the Annotation Scale dialog

box SHOULD open.... but it does not.  I have this same profile set on other computers with Windows 7

and they are working fine.  We have completely uninstalled ACA, wiped the registry clean, and reinstalled...

it's still doing the same thing.  I can switch to the Out of the Box profile and the dialog box opens as it should.

I'm not sure where to look within the profile for the issue since it's working on other computers.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,

Jane...

[Virtruvius]

Not sure WHY... might be something with Quick Properties setting that is on or off... but the way I work is to select the text, then go to the Properties Pallete (fly out) go to Annotative Scale under Text and click inside the box. That displays the three dots (...) on the right. Click the three dots and that takes you into the Annotative Scale edior where you can add or delete scales for that text.

[Virtruvius]

Sorry, one more potential isssue... I found that there is a major conflict with MTEXT in ACA when you have the ACA.cuix and ACAD.cuix loaded. Don't know if that is the case for you though. They both try to access different dialoges at the same time when you select text for editing.

[MarySeufert · Accepted solution]

Hi Jane,

Most likely the dialog box is off of your screen. The custom profile you are using was probably created with a different monitor setup.

Use this windows trick to move it back. When the dialog box is supposed to be visible, but you can't see it, press ALT+Space, then "M", then use the arrow keys to move the dialog box. Hopefully it will come back in view quickly.

~ Mary

[sbillingsley]

This did it, but rather than using the arrows the mouse automatically selected the window. THANK YOU!

[Anonymous]

LIFE. SAVER. 

[rjcpdx]

it worked, but i had to try a couple of things. as soon as i mouse clicked, i lost it, but something i did caught it and it moved. maybe it was left arrow on keyboard, i don't know, but its back.

[dopenaut · Accepted solution]

I just tried this and it worked:

1. place non-annotative m-text in the drawing

2. then select the text and change it to annotative (in the properties dialog box)

3. then run the objectscale command again (or right click the text , select Annotative Object Scale, Add/Delete Scale)

4. presto

[rwelchRGJTP]

I tried this and it did not work. when I used ALT+Space the move command is grayed out and isn't an option. I tried hitting "M" anyway but not thing seems to happened. Tried the go around of right clicking to open the box but that does not work either.

[Anonymous]

This is genius. I've been having this problem all day, and I was able to solve it in seconds with this trick. Thank you Mary!

[David125]

This was driving me nuts, thanks!

[AndyMac77]

My day just got so much better!

Thank you.

[ashamieh]

This worked like a charm! The most liked solution did not work for me, I am so glad this solution works as well. I was on the brink of getting so frustrated that I considered just starting the entire project all over. You're a champ.