We have a file from another firm in which we need to change the weight of text in notes which were placed in the file. The notes were placed with a text weight of 0, and we need to change the weight to 1. On some of the notes, we can simply use the "Change element attributes" tool, select the text and change it. However, sometimes when applying the change this way, the text will "jump" to another location on the screen. The leader remains unchanged and unmoved. On many of the notes, we have resorted to dropping the componets to text and lines in order to make the changes. We don't know which version of Microstation was used to create this file, and annotation scale is not applied to the model. We are using V8i SS2 on 64 bit Windows 7 workstations. What would be causing this behaviour? Thanks.
Create a new level for notes,
Set the dim style to your stds
make the dim level set for dimensions with keyin LD= dimension or notes level name
select all the offending notes move to notes level
make you dim style settings with weights and text styles
Select all your notes ( dims) and change the dims to active dim style via the dim tools palellet..
If that dont work.. and there are less than 50 notes to change then proceed to following
now make a new level call it new dims
Turn off all levels and refs except the bad dims level ( put an over rides on bad dims to say red so you can see them) and new dims set new dims to active and dim style
now redo note leaders by edit text, cut, place note , trace over top , paste text ( saves typing)
Now you should have 2 sets of of dims bad and good ... select all the bad and delete , rename good dim level to what it should be...
A lot of steps to detail instructions but not a lot to actually do... 50 would take me more or less 30 mins
Lorys
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Just something to check, is any of the text using true type fonts? If so, changing weight will have no effect.
I have seen this behavior before. Thought it was related to importing DWG files. Something with the text string line length and justification. Never was able to pinned it down. Are they shift to the extreme right or left depending on which side of the leader they are on?
Changing text weight should be simple. Is the text and leaders placed bylevel? If yes then change level weight in Level Manager.
If the text is not placed bylevel then you should be able to select all text with powerselector and use change elements attributes but, only have the change the line weight option checked to the line weight you wish to use
Follow the prompts in Microstation.
Roland
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