topic Re: UCS changed after exploding a Text in AutoCAD Forum

UCS changed after exploding a Text

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:17:41 GMT

Hi ..

I'm using autocad 2010 and here is my big problem ..

I exploded a text .. after that the coordinate changed (showing in pic). I mean the distance so far from the box .. please advice about this .. thanks.

-Udin-

Re: UCS changed after exploding a Text

pendean — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:32:56 GMT

How did you "explode the text" exactly?

Re: UCS changed after exploding a Text

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:30:45 GMT

I'm using this methode .. planning to region and union .. finally extrude it.

Re: UCS changed after exploding a Text

pendean — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:31:20 GMT

TXTEXP is an interesting command: in order to explode text objects, it actually exports them to a Windows Metafile (.WMF) using the WMFOUT command, and then reimports the file back in using WMFIN. This, in itself, is trickier than it sounds, as WMFOUT creates the graphics in the file relative to the top left of the drawing area, and it takes some work to generate the WCS location to pass into the WMFIN command for the geometry to be in the same location.

This re-import process seems to mimic your 'relocation' experience if I'm not mistaken.

Re: UCS changed after exploding a Text

JDMather — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:24:18 GMT

Simply move the text to where you really want it after running txtexp.

Re: UCS changed after exploding a Text

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 17:19:48 GMT

Good idea Mr. JD .. it is the only fastest ways?? ..

Re: UCS changed after exploding a Text

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 17:32:19 GMT

Thanks for the explanation Mr Pandean ..
so he (the text) changed become another shape (another format) .. and he doesn't know where to go back home 🙂 ..

Re: UCS changed after exploding a Text

pendean — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 17:52:51 GMT

Exactly: that very old express tool is limited and was only designed for 2D.

Re: UCS changed after exploding a Text

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 06:52:02 GMT

So how to work in 3D Mr Pandean ?? .. I mean the coordinate still Parallel with the box (in my case)

Re: UCS changed after exploding a Text

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 07:10:29 GMT

HI;

>> So how to work in 3D

TXTEXP is not designed to run in 3D-views. So create your text in normal 2D-view (view plan to XY plane), then let the text be exploded, the resulting entities can then be moved/rotated/scaled/aligned to any 3D plane and position you like.

- alfred -