Default Drawing View Label customization

[Anonymous]

I can't seem to find a place to customize the view labels (base and projected views) so that the text is left justified, top line is 3/16" underlined and bold, bottom line is 3/32" bold (no underline) - this is per my company's AutoCAD standards, and I try to match my inventor drawings as close as possible to them.

I suspect I could change my "Title Text" style and have that roll through all the text in the label, but the problem is I am mixing sizes and underlining throughout the label, so one style does not fit all.

I'd love for this to be saved with my styles/standards in my template, but I see no evidence of this being possible. It's a real pain changing every view label.

My current workaround is creating a sketch symbol with prompted entries - but I'd rather use the built-in labeling system that automatically populates the scale.

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

I think you are looking for this in your drawing or drawing template (styles)...

Update:  But you are limited in what "text" operations you can do.. 

[Anonymous]

Looks like that solves everything except the left alignment. For some reason the alignment is grayed out, and even though my Title Text style shows left align, it doesn't roll through to the view label. I'm not sure how to fix that.

I spent quite a while digging through the style editor, but never thought to expand on the top level "Standard"...I was looking through "View Annotation" and "Text". That's not very intuitive to look there!

[mcgyvr]

You need to make a "left aligned" text style and assign that to the view/scale label object on the object defaults tab..

That should do it..

[Anonymous]

I haven't tried that yet, but using that logic, shouldn't setting the justification in my default Title Text style have the same effect? (I can see it's already referring to this style). It's already set as left align.

[mcgyvr]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I haven't tried that yet, but using that logic, shouldn't setting the justification in my default Title Text style have the same effect? (I can see it's already referring to this style). It's already set as left align.

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It does but I think it won't update on existing view labels and only newly placed ones or something like that..

So change it then place a base view and it should be left justified now.. (works for me)

[Anonymous]

Just tried to make a new style (copied my Title style, which already was set as left justify) and set it as the View/scale default. It didn't work, even with a new sheet and new base view.

It may be worth mentioning I am using 2016 Pro.

[mcgyvr]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Just tried to make a new style (copied my Title style, which already was set as left justify) and set it as the View/scale default. It didn't work, even with a new sheet and new base view.

It may be worth mentioning I am using 2016 Pro.

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2016 may be the issue I suppose.. 

I don't have 2016 installed anymore so I can't check..

[jeffsteiger6735]

Unchecking the "justify text to leader" in the styles editor might be of some help also.

I have a personal vendetta against right justification, and the default should always be LEFT.

[rhasell]

Hi

As Mark has mentioned, the template change works.

See link to get iLogic code to change the labels on the existing drawings.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/view-label-default-position-orientation/m-p/4938600/hi...

[itsme.mozzarella]

Would be so much easier (and logical) to have all these settings in the Object Defaults list (even if it were just a link that sends you to the right location in the Style and Standard Editor or maybe an option in the context menu that sends you to the right place to begin editing the style of an object)... I had the same problem as the OP and it took me a good 15 minutes of searching and trial and error before I found out where to change View settings 😕