topic Re: Rotate command in AutoCAD Forum

Rotate command

john.p.addy — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:19:48 GMT

I'm posting for the a friend that isn't a member on here which I have been trying to get him to join. He has a problem which I haven't ever seen before. Say you want to rotate text 90 degrees but when he goes into the rotate command and picks his text to rotate it stays on say the left to right like your reading in a book but still rotates. it's hard to explain I have never seen anything like this.

I use grips a lot for rotating things and the rotate command is screwed up with the grips also so he did something and changed something he wasn't aware of.

Re: Rotate command

user181 — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:32:44 GMT

Check on the properties palette to see if it is annotative text and the Match orientation to layout is set to yes. If so change it to no

Re: Rotate command

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:38:00 GMT

I'm not sure I understand -- can you post an image with before-and-after conditions? Are you talking about Mtext for which the "box" rotates but the direction of the text content within it does not? [That's my best guess from your description.] Or plain Text somehow? [That's where I can't picture what the description would mean.]

Does the Text/Mtext have some kind of constraint applied that forces it to remain running the same direction?

Re: Rotate command

john.p.addy — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:51:32 GMT

That work thank you very much. I have never seen that and confused me.