Text-not aligned with my view

Hi Sigríður,

There are different options available; e.g. if your view is unrotated then you can select all the text elements, press Element Information, and set the rotation to 0.

However, if you are in a rotated view, that won't align correctly as the rotation is relative to the active coordinate system, not the view.

Instead you can manually align each piece of text like this:

1. Activate Rotate Element.
2. Left-Click on the Text Element anywhere you wish.
3. Activate Nearest Snap (press N with AccuDraw enabled).
4. Choose a justification point on the left side of the Text Element, from Left Top/Left Center/Left Bottom (I use Left Center).
5. Left-Click to accept.
6. Activate Nearest Snap (press N with AccuDraw enabled) once more.
7. Choose a justification point on the right side of the Text Element, from Right Top/Right Center/Right Bottom (I use Right Center).
8. With AccuDraw selected, Press V to align it to the view.
9. Move the Cursor to the right of the first rotation point.
10. Press Enter to lock to the X Axis.
11. Left-Click to complete rotation.
12. Right-Click exit current element rotation.

It might seem like a lot of work, but its really quite easy and takes little time to rotate any element to the current view (in the example below, I rotated my view so it didn't match the ACS):

A VBA Macro would be the quickest option (one may already exist) which would achieve the above automatically (but not using the same steps) by rotating around the Text Element's justification point.

You can still use Element Properties to rotate all text at one time. If you have an element (ex. line or text) which is rotated correctly you can ID that element and copy the rotation value. Then select all text that needs rotated open Element Properties and make sure all the text elements are selected in the list then paste the rotation value into the rotation field. All the text will be rotated. You may need to do some cleanup as this rotates the text about the origin/justification point. You don't necessarily need a vba, although it is nice to have.

I believe the text is not being placed properly because there may be an Auxiliary Coordinate System attached to the file. I run into this every so often. Usually I am just placing a few pieces of text so I don't worry about it. But, I remember years ago that there was forum post about the issue and I think it had something to do with an ACS being set active. Not sure as I have not really looked into the issue recently.

mwlong said:

You can still use Element Properties to rotate all text at one time. If you have an element (ex. line or text) which is rotated correctly you can ID that element and copy the rotation value. Then select all text that needs rotated open Element Properties and make sure all the text elements are selected in the list then paste the rotation value into the rotation field. All the text will be rotated. You may need to do some cleanup as this rotates the text about the origin/justification point. You don't necessarily need a vba, although it is nice to have.

That's true Matthew, but its more work than I would care to do if I can help it. I think this is a much better solution and how I would like to solve the problem (right-click & open in new window to full true size):

Sigríður Brynjólfsdóttir said:

Is there not an easier/quicker way to do this?  In V8i I graphed the text I wanted to rotate with the Edit text tool and then placed again with the Place text tool.  Then it was lined with my view.  I rotate my view a lot so this  is important to my to be able to do this quick.

Hi Sigríður,

What you see above is 500 copies of your TextNode Elements, positioned randomly in an area with random rotation. The Macro I have written allows you to preselect elements(selection set), add to a selection set or you can just choose individual elements with the tool, and then apply the make them align to your active view. In the example, you can see that it doesn't matter what the view rotation is, the elements align perfectly every time. Is this what you are looking for?

Barry Lothian said:

The Macro I have written allows you to preselect elements(selection set), add to a selection set or you can just choose individual elements with the tool

Are you willing to share this macro with us Barry?

Lorys said:

Are you willing to share this macro with us Barry?

It was written for the OP, if she confirms if it's what she was looking for, I'll attach it.

Jon has also written his own Text Rotator which does more than what mine does. Have you tested that?

Lorys said:

Are you willing to share this macro with us Barry?

It was written for the OP, if she confirms if it's what she was looking for, I'll attach it.

Jon has also written his own Text Rotator which does more than what mine does. Have you tested that?