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ChicagoLooper
en respuesta a: Anonymous

I've seen this happen way too often. You can consider a 'Text Style' to be a specific font with settings that make the font look special in modelspace. Don't get me wrong, not all 'text styles' have super customized settings. In fact, many 'text styles' don't have any customization at all, they simply accept, or inherit, the default settings given by AutoCAD. There are times when the only thing making one style different from another style is the name given to each style by the user.

 

For example, I could give one text style the name TRANSPORTATION and use this style for all surface roads, median divided roads, and tollways, and another text style named STRUCTURES and use this style for all homes, commercial businesses, and schools. If both of these text styles use the font Arial, then I could conceivably, use either style no matter what object I'm labeling. In this particular case, the styles are interchangeable.

 

If were were to change the Transportation 'text style' to use the font customized with Arial Bold Italic, then all road fonts would have a distinct appearance compared to the font used for Structures. In this situation, the fonts are not interchangeable because their styles give them a distinct appearance where one is styled to annotate a road while the other styled to annotate a building.

 

The problem with text styles (well not really a problem, just a misunderstanding) are new drawings using out-of-the-box settings. There's a 'text style' named STANDARD which uses an out-of-the-box font named Simplex. If I were to change, or customize, the 'text style' STANDARD on my home computer so STANDARD will use the font Stylus BT, it might create an issue if I cut-and-paste text from a home drawing to a work drawing, where the STANDARD text style at work is using the text style Simplex. As you can see, the STANDARD text style at home has a completely different font, Stylus BT, while at work the STANDARD style is using Simplex. If I cut-and-paste the STANDARD text style from one drawing to the other, one font must prevail because the same named style can't have two different fonts. AutoCAD doesn't allow it. So...., which one wins? Should one win?

 

The key is to solving this is to name one of the styles as Standard-2. This way, you can have two distinct text styles co-existing side-by-side and neither one will win, because neither one should win. If it were me, I'd name home text font Stylus BT (yes same as the font name) because having many styles in a drawing it would be hard to keep track of what font was used in Standard-7 and Standard-12. If I name the text style after the font, then I'd immediately know what font is in play.

 

Never stylize or overwrite the 'standard text style.' A better practice is to create a brand new style, name that style, then, if needed, customize that style.

Chicagolooper

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