TRUE TYPE FONT ELEVATION

[CADEngr2014]

Hello,

I am using Civil 3D 2014. 

I have changed to use arial true-type font recently and notice that the font can take an elevation, if your snaps happen to drag the font to the elevation of the snap.  The issue with this is that the font will appear bold or slightly darker than a non elevated text.  The stand alone text has a "Z" value in properties that can be adjusted back to 0, but text in a multileader style does not have that same control.  Is there a way to control the elevation of a true type font that is in a multileader style?

[jmayo-EE · Accepted solution]

In the future set OSNAPZ to 1 before you draw mleaders and they will all snap to elev 0 if your Elevation system variable is set to zero.

As for the existing ones you will need to move them manually. I might go to a Left or Right side view in model space to id the mleaders above elev 0. Hopefully they are all at the same elv and you can globally move them with the AutoCAD command. If not it's one at a time.

[Pointdump]

John,

That's a subtle distinction that I've never thought about before. Thanks for posting that.

Dave

[jmayo-EE]

HTH. 🙂

[tgsearles]

John,

I have been experiencing the same issue in Civil 3D 2016 with pipe network labels, or any other 3d object with an elevation value other than zero, from what I can tell.

Do you know of a solution for these labels tied to 3d objects?

Thanks in advance,

Todd Searles

Pierce County Public Works

[jmayo-EE]

Have you tried to place the labels with osnapz set to 1? I just tested it on 2015 and if osnapz is zero I get an elevation other than zero. If osnapz is set to 1 I get an elevation of zero. Both points ID'ed from a NODE on the dragged structure label text.

[bforr]

thanks for that

[jmayo-EE]

np

[jmayo-EE]

Unfortunately it does not work.

If you set a 3d view and set osnapz back to 1 the true elevation is shown.

don't think this can be changed in C3D labels.

Why do you need these at z=0? 

[jmayo-EE]

Sorry. Ignore my last question.

[tgsearles]

You're right, it doesn't work.  Tried your suggestion to set OSNAPZ to 1, then erased one of the pipe labels and brought it back in and saw no change.  Unless there is another system variable to control the labels tied to C3D objects (in my case pipe network structures/pipes, alignments, profiles), I can't think of another remedy.

If you think of something, or stumble upon a fix, let me know?

Thanks for responding.

Todd

[tgsearles]

A couple admittedly half-baked ideas:

A LISP routine to allow these 3D labels to gain a Z value in properties. 

A LISP routine to convert the raster-based True font styles to plot (or model, for that matter) as vector-based, as the acad font styles are.

??  I am a rookie as far as LISP is concerned.  Not sure how to approach the code for either of these ideas, or if they are even possible.

Thoughts?