topic Re: Positioning text angular in AutoCAD Forum

Positioning text angular

Scary99 — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:46:32 GMT

I am a recent graduate of Autocad courses at a community college. I just started working and need to position text along angular object lines ( imagine the spokes of a wheel). I only learned how to position text horizontal or vertical in school. I do ask questions of the experienced techs but I do want and need to solve issues on my own. Suggestions please.

Re: Positioning text angular

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:00:46 GMT

@Scary99

You can try this: ARCTEXT (Express Tool)

Re: Positioning text angular

imadHabash — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:35:35 GMT

HI,

you can do it by many ways , here is some :

select your Text then press and hold Ctrl+1 . change Rotation angle . ( see below image )
OR change your UCS >> OBject ( select oblique existing line ) to match the line angle . and to get back to normal position UCS >> World .

Re: Positioning text angular

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:25:20 GMT

There's no need to change the UCS or to make the Text first and then change its rotation angle in Properties. There is a prompt for the rotation angle in the Text command itself:

Command: TEXT
Current text style: "Standard" Text height: 0'-1" Annotative: No Justify: Left
Specify start point of text or [Justify/Style]: j Enter an option [Left/Center/Right/Align/Middle/Fit/TL/TC/TR/ML/MC/MR/BL/BC/BR]: MC
Specify middle point of text: {picked a point}
Specify height <0'-1">: 2
Specify rotation angle of text <0d0'0.00">: 30

Are you not getting that prompt? You can OSNAP to locations on drawn objects [such as the MIDpoint and an ENDpoint of your angled Lines] for both the insertion point and to define the rotation angle -- you don't need to type in an angle value as in the above excerpt.

And if you're talking about Mtext rather than Text, after you give it a corner point, there an option for setting the rotation, which you can also set by Osnapping to align with existing drawn objects:

Command: MTEXT
Current text style: "Standard" Text height: 2" Annotative: No
Specify first corner:
Specify opposite corner or [Height/Justify/Line spacing/Rotation/Style/Width/Columns]:

Re: Positioning text angular

GrantsPirate — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:59:54 GMT

I too like to rotate the UCS for this and lots of other uses. Lots of ways to do the same thing in AutoCAD.

Re: Positioning text angular

imadHabash — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:15:58 GMT

Hi,

Yes .. you're right . Rotating ucs and Proprieties palette always give us a great manipulate options to solve CAD issues . 🙂