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Text rotation problems in with inserted Xrefs

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:45:02 GMT

I am having trouble with text rotation in xrefs. The text is in the xref. If I rotate the plan view (say 90 degrees) and save it and then reinsert that xref into another file (file 2 for this discussion) the text appears rotated in file 2. I have to go back to the xref, rotate the plan back to zero (or the intended view) and then reimport it to the other file. Interestingly I didn't use to have this problem with my files. The xref could be saved with the plan view rotated and the text would look fine in the "file 2" file.

Now this is weird, sometimes I have to go back to the xref and in the multileader dialog box toggle the angle setting from "keep horizontal" to "as inserted" resave, and reimport into file 2. This is after rotating the xref's plan view back to the intended view (0 degrees). It doesn't seem to matter which setting it is on but after changing the setting I get the intended result! Again I didn't use to have this problem with having to reset the rotation.

I have tried resetting the units direction in both files to no avail.

I have tried purging, auditing, deleting all text, etc. to no avail.

This has been going on for some time and is driving me nuts and wasting time.

Interestingly this all started after migrating from XP Pro to Windows 7. Any help or thoughts appreciated.

Re: Text rotation problems in with inserted Xrefs

pendean — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 21:00:21 GMT

OS changes have nothing to do with text settings inside a DWG file: show us dwg sample files (xrefed) with the problem if you can please.

Re: Text rotation problems in with inserted Xrefs

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:08:18 GMT

Dean, OK thanks.

Looks like I can only post 3 files at a time? I will post twice.

Here are 2 xrefs and their parent files. One file set has the plan view rotated ninety degrees. The plan view is correct in the parent file but not the text.

In the other set the plan view is rotated back to its intended view then the text usually displays correctly.

I think this might be a font issue.

Re: Text rotation problems in with inserted Xrefs

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:08:55 GMT

Second set of files

Re: Text rotation problems in with inserted Xrefs

pendean — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:37:22 GMT

ZIP still works for combining many files into one 🙂

See attached PDFs from your two parent files: all I did was assign a font to the ACP style in all four dwgs: you tell me if you see a problem still.

Re: Text rotation problems in with inserted Xrefs

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:48:23 GMT

Dean,

Thanks again for your help! Zip of course, sorry.

I will study font assignment and its implications to this problem.

Any idea why this became an issue on one OS and not another? Literally the same files, the same software on different OSs.

Andy

Re: Text rotation problems in with inserted Xrefs

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:33:06 GMT

Dean,

I'm not seeing a lot of help in the help menu regarding assigning fonts to text style but in the Format > Text Style Dialog box the Style ACP has the font acp.shx assigned to it under "Font Name" in all files. So I must be in the wrong place?

Re: Text rotation problems in with inserted Xrefs

pendean — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:28:47 GMT

ACP was looking for an shx font file I did not have: your new PC is probably the same, the font you want is still on your old machine, no one moved it.

Go find it.

All I did was start STYLE command,s elect ACP, and I chose ARIAL for the test I performed. Once you find your needed font and install it on the new machine, you would substitute ACP.SHX for the Arial that I chose.