• Placing Text "Text Style Dialogue" box does not open.

    Good Morning all, Ok, I need to Place Text, Click on the "A" and open the Text Editor box, but i need to change the text style that's currently active, I click the three dots at the top (to Open the "Text Style Dialogue") - there's my problem…
  • Text style versus Text Justification

    Hello All, Does anyone else see Text styles and the need for them to propagate the text justification out to the text element as problematic? Or maybe I am missing something. To me text justification should be a time of placement override. The text…
  • Why is there not a place to set the text style in the Element Dimensioning dialogue?

    I've just been wondering lately why this dialogue doesn't have a drop down to allow selection of a text style? It would sure save some time since my dimension styles are set to use the active text style. Currently I have to go to a separate dialogue…
  • New Microstation User, multiple Text styles Template setup

    Good Day MicroHeads, I am a 10yr AutoCAD user starting a new position with a company that has my head scratching. We work on government jobs that require DGN submissions, the prelim is done in C3D and the design part is done in Microstation. My issue…
  • RE: Reference show though drawing that is placed over it.

    I am assuming the DGN does show on top of the raster and that the issue is the image shows through the actual text? In the text properties you can add background and some value to offset the background to prevent the graphics and rasters from showing…
  • RE: MicroStation SIG #7: Consolidated MicroStation Tips & Tricks

    Unknown said: 1. Is there a way to change dimension styles quickly? Create Text and Dimension styles stored in a dgnlib (in your networked workspace if you have one), apply them to the imported dimensions. Search these communities and the help documents…
  • Re: Underlining Selected words only

    Thank you Phil, It works after I untoggled the "Apply to all text" option. Now is there a way I could control the underline offset for the selected text only?
  • V8i and Text Styles

    Our existing Text Styles have a few issues with V8i. The existing libraries come in fine and you can use them. However, when you send the key-in, textstyle active (name), it’s not setting the text style active. An example of our text style name is .07…
  • Re: Text Style Height and Width place based on a variable

    http://translate.google.it/ I do not know if it is the right method but it works in VBA first create the test style o"style_name" dim fsx as double ' HorizScale CadInputQueue.SendCommand "TEXTSTYLE DESELECT ALL" CadInputQueue.SendKeyin…
  • Text Masking error?

    I am using text masking just fine. But after I changed the note to another level (I didn't change the text style), the background became the color of the level, and the text couldn't be read anymore. I already tried to match properties. Does anybody…
  • remove text background from multiple files?

    The problem we are having is when using the iPlot settings file provided by our client, text with background on (regardless of color) prints as filled black boxes. Changing the iPlot settings file is not an option. I'm looking for a way to turn off text…
  • Dim Styles and Place Note Alignment

    I have a designer that requested a method to align both the place note text and the inline leader. I do not know of away to do this in Microstation with the place note tool. We are using both dimension styles and text styles. The only way I can see this…
  • Wipping out graphics with black background in text

    OK this one is still bothering me. I have a font set up with a black background in hopes that it will wipe out anylines behind it. In most of my files it does not work but in a couple of the files it works. I have attached both files in a .pzip. If anyone…
  • remove text background from multiple files?

    The problem we are having is when using the iPlot settings file provided by our client, text with background on (regardless of color) prints as filled black boxes. Changing the iPlot settings file is not an option. I'm looking for a way to turn…
  • Re: Child Text Styles

    What was the reason that hierchical text styles were removed from V8i version? Where can I see a changelog of issues or user discussions before the decision was made to remove it? I tried them in older versions and it seemed a good approach. As AutoCAD…
  • Re: Problem setting Text Style & Dimension Style

    Maybe the problem is that your styles have spaces in the names? What is you try to enclose the style name in double quotes, like: TEXTSTYLE ACTIVE "SargonEng PFD"
  • Re: Auto Updating DimStyles and Textstyles from DGNLIB

    Ian, everthing that might support a company wide CAD-Standard is always a very good idea. The benefits range is from corporate identity to drawing quality to trouble free DWG conversion. However users should be involved beforehand…
  • Import text of coords in active angle mode

    Dear Users, I import file with coordinates in TXYZ format (*.txt file), but I would like the text to be placed automatically in defined active angle (not horizontal to axis X). There is no option to set it in 'text styles'. Could you tell me how do…