HOW TO ROTATE TEXT OR ELEMENT TO ANOTHER ELEMENT V8I

Ive been trying to do this  for ages  an it was driving me  nuts... too many  steps with accudraw to go wrong, found a few clues in old posts and  filled in the blanks

keyin ROTATE VIEW ELEMENT; %d;%d;ACTIVE ANGLE PT2

( THE ABOVE COULD BE SET TO AN F KY  IF YOU USE IT ALOT)

You'll be  prompted t select an element ( text or line or shape) to set the  view rotation

Then you'll need to Tentatative twice on the reference  line element ( the  one you want to rotate to) one end first and then the other end last

now you active angle is the angle of the reference  line

next  we click on the rotate icon and it has the new angle set, so now click on the text or element you want rotated

now key in vi=top to return the view ot original state and our text or line as adopted the angle of the reference element line... 

I tried to make another  keyin  

rotate icon;%d;vi=top

but it works like this select the text to rotate, data point in the view and  reset button mouse. then it rotates the text to right angle and sets view back to normal but doesnt

work if you use your  mouse buttons in any other order it fails to do what you want  cant work out why  but works.. other wise the rotate bit can view top can just be done by hand  or icons etc

Autocad has all this  much easier R for rotate  and option is reference so r and  two clicks and  done... 

I wish we had a simple tool or  macro with two clicks... 

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  • You are not using the Element Info dialog to get the angle of the element and using that value for the text rotation?

    Personally I like using Accudraw to accomplish this task. There are few steps to it but I use Accudraw and a Fkey combination.

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  • My problem is I have a  rotated view in model with title block ref attached, then I have match lines which should be perpendicular to the chainage ( or stationing line or design line)  and some times I need to re rotate the  tag text that is  supposed to be  in line  with the  match lines.. often the designes rework things and the match lines need to be adjusted / re rotated  .. so when I examine a  line that is perpendicular to the design line it does give me the angle i need.. but when I click on the tag text  in the properties it wont let me  change the text angle.. I have had the angle assistant but I must be using it  wrong or the rotated view and tag text is  complicating it.. or I need to relearn angle assistant  from Inga... in a place  I worked many   years ago we used xm and had a great little custom tool that was added to our tool bar and  fkeys  and only  needed two clicks    1st click to get the desired angle then 2nd click on element to change  rotation and it  just rotated even in rotated views .. I miss its simplicity...... btw  how do we reply with quotes from user  posts

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  • Unknown said:
    btw  how do we reply with quotes from user  posts

    Select the text in the post that you want to quote and a little box with "Quote" appears. Press it afterwards and the text is copied to your reply.

    I'm all for VBA but I only use it for really complex operations, this task seems pretty simple going by your description. I do similar operations frequently and only ever use the rotate command with accudraw but to each their own.

    Unknown said:
    Ive been trying to do this  for ages  an it was driving me  nuts... too many  steps with accudraw to go wrong,

    Not sure what goes wrong for you. Care to upload an example file with target element (to rotate to) and source element (to be rotated) and I can show the steps how I approach it?

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  • Unknown said:
    btw  how do we reply with quotes from user  posts

    Select the text in the post that you want to quote and a little box with "Quote" appears. Press it afterwards and the text is copied to your reply.

    I'm all for VBA but I only use it for really complex operations, this task seems pretty simple going by your description. I do similar operations frequently and only ever use the rotate command with accudraw but to each their own.

    Unknown said:
    Ive been trying to do this  for ages  an it was driving me  nuts... too many  steps with accudraw to go wrong,

    Not sure what goes wrong for you. Care to upload an example file with target element (to rotate to) and source element (to be rotated) and I can show the steps how I approach it?

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