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Text line weight not consistent

yheLT3G3 — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:27:18 GMT

Hi -

I changed the default font from a shx to ttf in text styles and texts got updated automatically.

However, I'm noticing that text line weight looks inconsistent both in model view and plotted(see screenshot below).

I ran RE command, cleared all text format and matched text properties, but didn't work.

Any idea what's causing the issue here and solutions?

Thank you!

Re: Text line weight not consistent

rkmcswain — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:54:46 GMT

Check the "Z" value on those funky looking text objects (should be 0.0), also check to make sure that no font substitution has been applied to those objects.

Re: Text line weight not consistent

imadHabash — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 05:22:32 GMT

Hi,

can you share with us a CAD dwg sample please for testing ?

Re: Text line weight not consistent

pendean — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:48:45 GMT

FLATTEN command will remove the "z" settings and fix the fuzzies.

Re: Text line weight not consistent

yheLT3G3 — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:13:09 GMT

Hi thanks for answering! The FLATTEN command worked for text callouts but caused misalignment in detail bugs and the text still looks different in them...

Re: Text line weight not consistent

yheLT3G3 — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:19:26 GMT

and also all the text callout got exploded to pieces when I ran FLATTEN...

Re: Text line weight not consistent

Patchy — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:30:01 GMT

Try Command DView, select all, Points, set target to 0,0,0 and camera to 0,0,1

Re: Text line weight not consistent

yheLT3G3 — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:35:57 GMT

Please see attached for the test file. In this file, I ran FLATTEN for some of the callouts and detail bugs but all those callouts got exploded... and the line weight still don't look right in detail bugs..

Re: Text line weight not consistent

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:00:11 GMT

A possible reason: .TTF fonts when used at width factors other than 1 can "look" bolder on-screen. If you are using a Style with a non-1 width factor in the definition, or you have changed the width factor of any Text/Mtext content, you may see that apparent boldness, but in my experience it doesn't plot bolder.

Re: Text line weight not consistent

imadHabash — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:37:31 GMT

i see that your attribute text has a Width factor = 0.85 , try to change it to 1 .

Re: Text line weight not consistent

pendean — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:02:35 GMT

Go back to the file before you ran FLATTEN, set UCS and PLAN to WORLD, then try FLATTEN again.

BTW rotate your view to FRONT or BACK and see those floating annotations yourself, far above the rest of your 2D flat drawing.