[CE2] Changing the Color and Weight of Text Inside the Table

How to change the Color and Weight without using TextStyles?

Moreover, the formatting in properties should be enhanced to allow us to alter the setting of text such as color and weight.

I can't find a way to modify the text weight !

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  • Hello,
    Could you describe your workflow to explain why you need to carry this out without using Text Styles?
    You can override the color and weight of all the text inside the table using the Default Text Color and Default Text Weight properties in the Text Styles section of the Properties dialog. Note that the text weight does not affect TrueType fonts.
    To change the color of text inside a particular cell of a table, double-click the text to open the Text Editor window. Then select the text in the Text Editor window and change the color from the color drop-down.
    Regards
    Derval Canny.



  • Text Style is meaningless to me after passing to other and altering the dgn file many times. Both Text elements have the same Text Style does not represent that they would have the same Text Height / Text Width. Text Style is just a name. Un-managed style is a global direction that all text elements could be set independently. Moverover, I don't see the Text Styles Dialog (or can you define what is the Text Styles section of the Properties dialog?) that could allow you to config the weight (there is color for us only).

    To change the text color independently, you have to use Text Editor to modify. However, there are nothing about weight settings in the Text Editor and it could messed up the original table's line weight and text weight after Accepting the Selection.

    My preferred workflow to modify Text Color and Weight inside the table is to use Properties Dialog to config it:

    (Text Elements inside the Table should be expected to allow us to do that in the same way)

  • I would suggest creating a new Text Style with the attributes you wanted for this text, select all of the text you wanted to allocate this Text Style and using the Change Text Attributes tool change it to the style you have just created.

    Regards
    Andrew Bell
    Technical Support
    Bentley Systems

  • Unknown said:
    Where is the WEIGHT configure?

    The screenshot shows two text elements created with a TrueType Tahoma font.  The top text is normal and the lower text is bold.  Both use line weight zero.

    TrueType fonts are design to be used with the text embellishments bold, italic etc.  Generally, those fonts do not look very elegant if you apply a MicroStation line weight.  In some cases the text becomes illegible if the line weight is too heavy.

    The text looks the same as if you formatted it in another application such as Microsoft Office. 

     
    Regards, Jon Summers
    LA Solutions

  • Unknown said:

    The screenshot shows two text elements created with a TrueType Tahoma font.  

    So.... where is the WEIGHT configure for traditional ENGINEERING font inside the table? The document just stated that WEIGHT can't be applied to TrueType but it does not mentioned that the weight of text inside the table can't be changed.

  • Weight cannot be applied to text that uses RSC type fonts as in the weight you can apply to lines, shapes etc. In fact, as Jon Summers was showing, that weight can only really be applied to text if you select a True Type Font (TTF) that has a Bold option or name.

    Regards
    Andrew Bell
    Technical Support
    Bentley Systems

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