Drafting Techniques

[#1]

I have searched everywhere but have found nothing. There are a ton of lisp to match text rotation to a selected line, but not vice versa.

Anyone out there have anything?

[#2]

I have a routine I use to rotate viewports which first sets the snapangle to the selected object rotation. If you select text and then escape the routine you can place a line with ortho on to get what you want. I don't think it works with mtext though.

http://www.paracadd.com/lisp/rotx.lsp

HTH

[#3]

Use UCS, Ojbect option, pick text

I have a simple macro so I type UO, pick the object.  And UW for UCS, World to get back.

[#4]

I have autocad 2011. Use ALIGN command. It rotates an object the way it rotates text like TORIENT command, only vise versa. align can rotate any object.

ROse

[#5]

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econnerly wrote:

I have searched everywhere but have found nothing. There are a ton of lisp to match text rotation to a selected line, but not vice versa.

Anyone out there have anything?

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This will set your snapang to the selected text angle. HTH

(defun C:tmp ()

   (setq esel (entsel "\nSelect text: "))  

   (setq edata (entget (car esel)))  

   (setvar 'snapang (cdr (assoc '50 edata)))  

  (princ)

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