Positioning text angular

[Scary99]

I am a recent graduate of Autocad courses at a community college.  I just started working and need to position text along angular object lines ( imagine the spokes of a wheel).  I only learned how to position text horizontal or vertical in school. I do ask questions of the experienced techs but I do want and need to solve issues on my own. Suggestions please.

[Anonymous]

@Scary99 

You can try this:    ARCTEXT (Express Tool)

[imadHabash · Accepted solution]

HI,

you can do it by many ways , here is some :

• select your Text then press and hold Ctrl+1 . change Rotation angle . ( see below image ) 
• OR change your UCS >> OBject ( select oblique existing line ) to match the line angle . and to get back to normal position UCS >> World . 

[Kent1Cooper]

There's no need to change the UCS or to make the Text first and then change its rotation angle in Properties.  There is a prompt for the rotation angle in the Text command itself:

Command: TEXT
Current text style:  "Standard"  Text height:  0'-1"  Annotative:  No  Justify:  Left
Specify start point of text or [Justify/Style]: j Enter an option [Left/Center/Right/Align/Middle/Fit/TL/TC/TR/ML/MC/MR/BL/BC/BR]: MC
Specify middle point of text: {picked a point}
Specify height <0'-1">: 2
Specify rotation angle of text <0d0'0.00">: 30

Are you not  getting that prompt?  You can OSNAP to locations on drawn objects [such as the MIDpoint and an ENDpoint of your angled Lines] for both the insertion point and to define the rotation angle -- you don't need to type in  an angle value as in the above excerpt.

And if you're talking about Mtext rather than Text, after you give it a corner point, there an option for setting the rotation, which you can also set by Osnapping to align with existing drawn objects:

Command: MTEXT
Current text style:  "Standard"  Text height:  2"  Annotative:  No
Specify first corner:
Specify opposite corner or [Height/Justify/Line spacing/Rotation/Style/Width/Columns]:

[GrantsPirate]

I too like to rotate the UCS for this and lots of other uses.  Lots of ways to do the same thing in AutoCAD.

[imadHabash]

Hi,

Yes .. you're right . Rotating ucs and Proprieties palette always give us a great manipulate options to solve CAD issues . 🙂