topic Re: Simple Flipping of Text in Dynamic Blocks Forum

Simple Flipping of Text

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:37:40 GMT

Ok having an issue with a simple block. It's got the align tag and the flip tag. Align works fine, but the flip does not work, at least on the text. I want to just flip the text so that the text is always facing the correct direction.

When I try to flip the text it will not flip, but if I put a pline in there and attach it to flip it flips, so I know the thing works 🙂

Any suggestions? Is there a way to have the text flip automatically instead of me having to manually flip it?

Thanks & sorry for probably a stupid question 🙂

-Jason

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

h_s_walker — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:36:19 GMT

Don't use a flip, just stick an alignment parameter on each edge of the rectangle.

See the attached

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:02:28 GMT

So with that, is there a way to cycle thru those alignments points? I generally put this in a palette and insert it into the drawing that way. Is there a way to cycle thru?

Thanks

-Jason

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

h_s_walker — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:17:59 GMT

the block has to be non annotative for the selection cycling to work.

Press CTRL to cycle through each point

See the attached drawing

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

Libbya — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:19:59 GMT

Change the MIRRTEXT sys variable to 1 and the text will flip. I wonder why you want that, though, as it makes the text unreadable. If you really want the text to rotate rather than flip, that can be accomplished as well.

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:15:07 GMT

I want to just flip the text vertically so that if it's upside down it will then be right side up.

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:31:33 GMT

@h_s_walker wrote:
the block has to be non annotative for the selection cycling to work.

Press CTRL to cycle through each point

See the attached drawing

Ahhh .. well that sucks. Ok, I'll have to figure something else out since the flipping doesn't work.

Thanks again...

-Jason

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

Libbya — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:36:16 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I want to just flip the text vertically so that if it's upside down it will then be right side up.

Did you watch my screencast? When you truly flip text it forms mirrored letters that are unreadable. When you rotate the text 180 degrees, the text is readable but upside down. Rotating is not flipping... I show how to do both in the screencast.

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:38:33 GMT

@Libbya wrote:
Change the MIRRTEXT sys variable to 1 and the text will flip. I wonder why you want that, though, as it makes the text unreadable. If you really want the text to rotate rather than flip, that can be accomplished as well.

Great I'll take a look at this and give it a go.

Thanks for all the help!

-Jason

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:25:59 GMT

@Libbya wrote:
Change the MIRRTEXT sys variable to 1 and the text will flip. I wonder why you want that, though, as it makes the text unreadable. If you really want the text to rotate rather than flip, that can be accomplished as well.

Ok quick one... how did you get the Double Lookup? I only have Lookup, and if I try to create one using a Parameter Set it doesn't have the sub Lookup1 and Lookup2 like yours does.

Thanks,

-Jason

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

Libbya — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:27:27 GMT

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/dynamic-blocks/how-to-make-a-double-lookup/m-p/5785708#M18799

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:55:44 GMT

@Libbya wrote:
Change the MIRRTEXT sys variable to 1 and the text will flip. I wonder why you want that, though, as it makes the text unreadable. If you really want the text to rotate rather than flip, that can be accomplished as well.

Ok that worked great! Thanks a ton for the help and patience. Will definitely be implementing this on other blocks..

On a side note is there a way to have a dynamic block automatically orient the text depending on how the block is inserted? So if I'm say attaching to a wall that is above the block... see attached screenshot. Then I could forgo the manual flip and it'll automatically flip it so the text is oriented correctly? Is that doable thru dynamic or is that something for a lisp routine?

Thanks,

-Jason

Re: Simple Flipping of Text

Libbya — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:06:02 GMT

Maybe create your block so that the alignment grip is at the top of the rectangle and move everything so that alignment point is at the origin. That way, on insertion, you would be on the alignment grip and it would align the top of the rectangle to rotate the block 180° when on top of a line and oriented normally when below a line.