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...
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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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?