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TitleBlock TextBox Text Height vs Insertion Point Varies

MechMachineMan — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:14:56 GMT

I'm trying to clean-up our titleblock and one issue I am running into is that given different text, the height of the text is starting differently relative to the insertion point. See picture.

For example, the top of the S in scale is directly in line with the insertion point, whereas the W in Weight is about 1/6 of the text height lower than the insertion point.

Anyone know why this is doing this?

For testing I had copied the Scale textbox and replaced the text and it again shifted it all down....

The text is currently RomanD.

Re: TitleBlock TextBox Text Height vs Insertion Point Varies

cbenner — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:46:15 GMT

Edit the text on one of these fields, and then post a screenshot of the text editor window, so we can see all of the settings, please.

Re: TitleBlock TextBox Text Height vs Insertion Point Varies

MechMachineMan — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:58:49 GMT

Hi Chris, sorry for the delay. Here is. Nothing looks goofy to me, which is why I brought the question to the forums.

Re: TitleBlock TextBox Text Height vs Insertion Point Varies

dan_inv09 — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 18:47:14 GMT

What else is on the "WEIGHT" line?

I had some text in a sketched symbol located by the lower right and the line with parentheses was pushed way up (I suspect your "RM#" would do the same) - I think the ' in "MAT'L" is affecting that line; see how it's above the letters? The bounding box for text seems to be adjusting - some of us might prefer it if it were a fixed size based on the text size: either with odd height characters extending beyond it or accommodating all the characters (without letting them jump up and down based on the ones used) .

It's just one of those little things that would keep drawings from looking sloppy - the sort of things we're expected to adapt to now.

Re: TitleBlock TextBox Text Height vs Insertion Point Varies

innovatenate — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:04:11 GMT

Could you post the template here?

Is this the same text style? If you use middle justification for the text style, does that help?

Thanks,

Re: TitleBlock TextBox Text Height vs Insertion Point Varies

MechMachineMan — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:04:24 GMT

SCALE: is followed by a sepertate textbox with prompted entry SCALE in it
MAT'L: is followed by <DESCRIPTION> in same text box
RM#: is followed by <COST CENTER> in same text box
WEIGHT: is followed by <MASS\P1;> in the same box.
ALLOWED PROCESSES: <VENDOR> is the last line.

I see how the

Re: TitleBlock TextBox Text Height vs Insertion Point Varies

MechMachineMan — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:06:17 GMT

I have figured it out!

The / and ' are throwing off the bounds. As well as the # at the bottom.

If the text is .140in, and I change the ' to .125 it lines up more naturally...

Seems like quite the annoyance though.

Thanks a bunch for the help!

Re: TitleBlock TextBox Text Height vs Insertion Point Varies

dan_inv09 — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:34:35 GMT

You're going to manually adjust the size of each "odd" character? You are using iProperties in much of that text - what happens if they have some of those?

The problem with middle justification is that unless you have characters that stick equally above and below (are the ' and the # even equal?) it's still going to be off.

We need the text box to work as intended and/or we need to be able to put multiple iProperties/Prompted Entries in the same block of text (so the text formatting handles the line spacing rather than manually spacing multiple individual text items).

Alternately we could try and find an acceptable text font which keeps all the characters within the same space (quick, someone type a line of text using all the characters for each of the fonts so we can check to see which might be okay).