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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  • now your  just teasing me Jon .. sort of a  vba carrot on a microstation stick.. oh darn it  I forgot say I;m using Mstn V8i SS3...

    Lorys

    Started msnt work 1990 - Retired  Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )

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  • Unknown said:
    I forgot say I'm using Mstn V8i SS3

    I didn't mention MicroStation CONNECT.  VBA is pretty much the same.  In fact, I used MicroStation V8i SS3 to examine the code, so we're stuck in the same time warp.

     
    Regards, Jon Summers
    LA Solutions

  • Jon are hinting your willing to update the angle assistant macro to be able to do Tag Text  and lines? That would be a real boon to all users, I gave it a try  but ended up making such a mess of it  it didn't  work anymore...

    Lorys

    Started msnt work 1990 - Retired  Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )

    But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE  update 16 (10.16.00.80) 

    MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.
    click link to PM me 

  • Unknown said:
    now you're  just teasing me Jon

    Send a message to the author of that macro and ask them to update it.  If they are unwilling or unable to do that ask them to revoke copyright and place it in the public domain.

     
    Regards, Jon Summers
    LA Solutions

  • Hi Guys and Gals,

    Maybe this is a little bit off topic, but I've used Active Angle Assistant for years now.  I love it.  It makes my Microstation time so much easier.  I saw another thread about "Ideas" for Microstation.  Basically it was about contributing ideas to make Microstation better.  I suggest that we go over to the Microstation suggestion place and suggest they add an Active Angle Assistant tool to Microstation.  All the AutoCad guys I work with are always complaining that Autocad can do this function and Microstation cannot.  I don't know how to use AutoCad, so I couldn't say if that's true or not.  Sometimes they just like to troll me.  Anyway, I think it'd be a great feature to add to Microstation.

    Minion

    Code... We're the good guys now.