topic Re: rotation locked on property box in AutoCAD Forum

rotation locked on property box

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2017 00:49:34 GMT

im trying to rotate text using property box but i cannot toggle it
is there someone who can help me?, please

im a full blown newbie here, thank you for response

Re: rotation locked on property box

user181 — Fri, 12 May 2017 14:07:45 GMT

Could be because the text justification is set to "fit". If you change it to center or any other justification you should be able to rotate it.

Re: rotation locked on property box

chriscowgill7373 — Fri, 12 May 2017 14:09:40 GMT

is the layer locked? I use the dark interface, so I'm not seeing it look "greyed"

is it possible for you to take a screenshot of the full properties palette, not just the quick properties? it might provide us with some additional information. Option 2 is provide the drawing so we can click on the text and snoop around ourselves.

Re: rotation locked on property box

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2017 03:24:24 GMT

thank you very much, it will help me a lot in the future. 🙂

Re: rotation locked on property box

Vuxvix — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 02:31:53 GMT

Hi!

I also have problem with Rotaion property. I have uploaded an example file. Thanks for all the support.

Re: rotation locked on property box

chriscowgill7373 — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 14:19:55 GMT

@Vuxvix wrote:

Hi!

I also have problem with Rotaion property. I have uploaded an example file. Thanks for all the support.

Your issue is completely different, and would probably have been best served as a separate post. How was the second piece of text created? The only difference fundamentally between the two pieces in your file is the one that wont rotate has Xdata associated with it. I would suggest removing the Xdata and see if that allows it to rotate.

Re: rotation locked on property box

cadffm — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 16:13:38 GMT

I can explain what the issue is (a software BUG, you should start a supportcase with a link to this thread).

1. You have a TEXT, ANNOTATION = YES and MATCH ORIENTATION TO LAYOUT also YES

This way you don't have access to Text rotation property (what is ok in this case)

2. Change the property ANNOTATIVE to NO

Correct would be: Rotation is available again, but it isn't! Autocad doesn't delete the information about MATCH ORIENTATION TO LAYOUT (YES),

That is the bug!

Start a supportcase, send feedback, fight for all of us 🙂

3. You can fix it by hand this way:

Set ANNOTATIVE to Yes, set MATCH ORIENTATION TO LAYOUT to NO, Set ANNOTATIVE back to NO.

Re: rotation locked on property box

Vuxvix — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:42:19 GMT

Hi! @chriscowgill7373 @cadffm
First, Thank you for your support. Also forgive me for the weekend post, so I can only reply to your feedback today.
I can give a basic explanation of my problem situation:
- I received a drawing with a request to change the viewport on the layout (rotated 180 degrees).
-After editing the layout, I need to change the orientation of the text (Dim, Text, Block...)
-During the editing process I use a lot of lisp:
+ Rotation model scape: UCS, Snapang...
+Flip Dimension
+Rotation by base point, Rotation by center Object(2 lisp).
These are the lisp I think might be related to the problem. I compared with the drawing at first. And the text in the original drawing doesn't have this problem. It is a line of text with the content: "Rotation"
-I tried editing in CADffm way: the problem is fixed. Many thanks!

Re: rotation locked on property box

Vuxvix — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:39:30 GMT

Part2 of lisp
Ps:I don't know where to start supportcase. Can you be more specific!?

Re: rotation locked on property box

cadffm — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:50:59 GMT

>>"These are the lisp I think might be related to the problem."

So you understood nothing from my Answer?

Did you ever heard about "Annotation Scaling" "Annotation Feature"?

You can read about it in Your Help [F1] or use a search engine for related pages in www.

YT - Video sample

If you would check the properties of your Text before and after your Lisp, you can see the lisp function changes nothing,

the problem is present before (and after) lisp function.

As I wrote, some disabled the "Annotation" property, but AutoCAD still keeping the Information about 'Match orientation on Layout",

what.

Why do you think your Lisps has anything to do with it?

Check the text in the original file, it is the same, nothing to do with these lisp files.

>>"Support case"

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-create-a-Technical-Support-case-for-Autodesk-software.html

Re: rotation locked on property box

Vuxvix — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:47:42 GMT

Hi!

I am using Annotative for drawings. Looks like I know a little about it too.
as for the lisp- functions I just stopped at using it.There are many lisp that change many system variables. So I'm guessing what's possible according to my thoughts.
As for the situation I mentioned. Really thanks for helping me solve the problem.

I can't find the support case entry. The interface of the site has changed a lot. i also tried searching it on google.
Have a good day

Re: rotation locked on property box

cadffm — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 23:29:24 GMT

Hi,

>"I am using Annotative for drawings. Looks like I know a little about it too."

Perfect (it is very hard to explain it to someone who isn't familiar with it)

You can select you annotation (and ex annotation) Text,MText,Attdef objects

and run this AnnoPOoff

For hatch it isn't possible and for block you have to change the property inside the BEdit,

this tool works for unnested Text,MText,Attdefs and is just a sample code.

Attention, it works for non-annotation AND annotation Text,

select your objects first, then start AnnoPOoff.

In you case, you can use QSELECT to select non-annotation Texts

Re: rotation locked on property box

Vuxvix — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 23:39:54 GMT

Hi!

You are really thoughtful. i did it manually and it was pretty fast too.

By the way, can you do lisp automatically layiso a layer and unlock the layer if the layer is locked. I couldn't find this content, and it seems pretty small to create a new topic 😄
Thanks

Re: rotation locked on property box

cadffm — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:32:05 GMT

>>" lisp automatically layiso a layer and unlock the layer if the layer is locked"

Everytime just ONE layer? In this case you don't need program,

simple menu macro is good enough.

^C^C^C_.LAYISO;\;_.-LAYER;_unl;$M=$(getvar,CLAYER);;

Re: rotation locked on property box

Vuxvix — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:46:12 GMT

Hi!
the same way the layiso command works. Selected objects will be isolated (if the layer is locked, it will be unlocked). I tried your macro function, it works as expected for 1 layer, but for many layers it fails.
If this is a lisp function it will be easy for me to generate hotkey. Thanks

Re: rotation locked on property box

vijays2u — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:53:28 GMT

Solution is so simple but the issue was too big. Than you sir