All,
I recently stumbled across a key-in string that will orient a North arrow cell automatically when being placed. This would be perfect if my firm liked to put the "Scale: " text with the same orientation as the arrow but they do not. Instead we align the "Scale: " text with the view, which I think is pretty common.
Because of this, I created a second cell, one with the text "$SCALE$" (A text substitution we make with our pen table using named expressions), and I expanded the key-in string to place the scale cell a distance of 1 unit below the arrow cell after the arrow cell is placed.
The string is now...
ac=North;aa=0;accudraw dialog;accudraw setorigin;accudraw rotate top;%d;accudraw rotate view;reset;ac=Scale;dx=0,-1,0;reset
My question then is, is there any way to make the distance of 1 unit a variable amount based off of the active scale?
Something to the effect of ...dx=0,<as=>*-1,0...
I am anticipating the answer is a no, but I suggested solutions do not have to be limited to the key-in dialog. I am open to macros and other utilities so long as the end result can get slapped on a function key.
Any suggestions?