topic Re: Dynamic Block Horizontal Text in Dynamic Blocks Forum

Dynamic Block Horizontal Text

buckeyefever2 — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:06:53 GMT

Is there a way to keep an attribute text horizontal even while having the aligned parameter defined. I've attached my drawing to help understand what I'm trying to ask. I'd like to be able to insert the receptacle and it automatically attaches to the wall with the correct rotation, but keep the text horizontal to make it easier to read. But, as of now it rotates with how the wall is oriented.

Re: Dynamic Block Horizontal Text

Libbya — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 19:25:06 GMT

As far as I know, nope. The alignment rotates the entire block.

Re: Dynamic Block Horizontal Text

steven-g — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:23:14 GMT

I have to admit it was a fight to get this working, it uses an annotative text style that will allow you to set the properties to "match text orientation to layout" in the text style dialoge. It works at this scale is about all I can say, but it is something you can try an adapt.

Re: Dynamic Block Horizontal Text

buckeyefever2 — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 18:29:08 GMT

Thanks! I'll definitely look into this and seeing how best to make it work with our drawings. Appreciate your efforts into finding a solution for this!