How to align text in Title of detail?

[Anonymous]

Good day

Can someone please explain how to center the titles in a multi-line heading when editing the drawing styles manager, so that the titles appear centered as in the second picture?

I assumed using ctr + E shortcut would center it, as in Word, however it doesn't carry of over to the actual drawings.

Using spaces does also not work as the lines are not centered exactly due to the tokens having various changing lengths.

Thanks for any help provided.

[Anonymous]

I would be grateful for this information too.

[johnjmbennett]

I don’t not think this is possible, automatically. If you change the text to see the actual text string, there are things like #newline , #colour. I am not aware there is a syntax that allows the centering. To acces the code, there is a icon at top right In the menu area, press that an the string changes.

[Sebastian_Eiche]

I'm relatively sure that this is not adjustable as @johnjmbennett already told. But a way could be to insert only the first line by title block and additional a label for mainparts...I think noone label it extra in mp details so this label strategy could be used to insert the information and then you had to move the label under the title name. 

I know it's not the way it should work, maybe you create an idea in the idea station for it.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the input, I have submitted to the idea station https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/advance-steel-ideas/align-text-options-in-title-of-detail/idi-p/85098...

[john_mcfaddenGY4B4]

Has anyone figured out how to do this?

[j.hamelin]

There’s still no option to do that, and there never will be, since Advance Steel is in maintenance mode.

[D_Waeldele · Accepted solution]

I was interested myself, so I tried the following.

You could try it with VBScript. There's no centering option here either, but you could pad the text with spaces accordingly.

The VBscript:

%%script(var1=Len("%Note"): var2=Len("%Scale"))#Newline%%script(if Len(var1)>=Len(var2)then var3=var1 else var3=var2)#Newline%%script(appendstring(space(var3-var1)&"%Note"))#Newline%%script(appendstring(space(var3-var2)&"%Scale"))

I have divided it into 4 separate instructions.

#Newline                                                                                                                      --> New line 

%%script(var1=Len("%Note"): var2=Len("%Scale"))                                            --> find the lenght from the text

%%script(if Len(var1)>=Len(var2)then var3=var1 else var3=var2)                    --> finds the longest text and stores it in var3

%%script(appendstring(space(var3-var1)&"%Note"))                                        --> outputs the corresponding number of spaces and the text in the first line

%%script(appendstring(space(var3-var2)&"%Scale"))                                       --> the same in line 2

 

 

Whether this makes sense is up to each individual to decide; it's purely about aesthetics. I haven't needed it anywhere yet, so I only added it manually to the drawing.

An error message appears if there's a spelling mistake or a missing parenthesis, and sometimes the %%Script( instruction is removed, leaving only normal text in the line.

 

[Sebastian_Eiche]

that's really nice! 

I'm not sure if the %%script is needed every line, this maybe is the problem with the spelling error. But the script itself is very good.

[john_mcfaddenGY4B4]

Thanks for the info! However in my situation, padding the text with spaces won't work as my scales vary from such as 1/4" = 1'-0" to 1 1/2" = 1'-0" etc etc so I would end up having an uncentered 2nd line of text at some point.

[D_Waeldele]

I'm a beginner in programming, so I've split the script into several lines for better clarity.

Surely you could enter that in one line.

[D_Waeldele]

I tried it with a multiplier and in the German version it worked.