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Changing All Text Heights

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:29:46 GMT

Hello all,

Some background; I've been working on a set and was incredibly frustrated that the text sizes were not matching up across drawings. The annotative text and dimensions have been set to a text height of 3/32" (I want them all at 1/8" in paper space). The text sizes were showing up as 1/8" because we always have our dimension precision set to 1/16" and thus the 3/32" text height was rounding up to 1/8"!

I have been going through all of my annotation files updating the DimStyles, all text, and blocks but this is a rather large pain as I need to repeat the process for every file. Is there a way to override all of these items (dims, text, and blocks) to reflect the new paper-space text height? Please let me know if there is a way to update all of these or if this will just take some time to manually. Thanks!!

Re: Changing All Text Heights

R_Tweed — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:14:05 GMT

The dimensions can be updated fairly easily using a standards check which can be automated across multiple dwgs. To change the text would need more specific information. ex. you can select all text that is 4.5" tall (3/32 x 48) in a 1/4 scale dwg and change the height to 6". This could be straight forward or need multiple steps depending on whether everything is annotative. There are a few lisp routines out there for changing text height as well.

Re: Changing All Text Heights

R_Tweed — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:17:53 GMT

jtb world has a free height change lisp routine https://jtbworld.com/autocad-textheight-lsp

Re: Changing All Text Heights

ennujozlagam — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:12:15 GMT

you can refer to this previous thread and see if helps. thanks