Symptoms

During the revision of drawings, it is often necessary to adapt the alignment of all texts. This is a typical task for a VBA routine.

However, when changing the text orientation of the insertion of text (Origin), it will sometimes automatically shift the text to an undesired location.

Troubleshooting Steps

This undesired shift can be slightly offset by the change in the orientation by using a VBA routine to push the text back to its original point. You can use a RangeBox here, which is the smallest rectangle bounding the text.

Here is an example for how to carry this process out. In the example, the text elements must be selected in advance.

Sub textalignWithCorrection()
Dim Ee As ElementEnumerator
Dim pOriginOld As Point3d
Dim pOriginNew As Point3d
Dim pOffset As Point3d
Set Ee = ActiveModelReference.GetSelectedElements
Do While Ee.MoveNext
    If Ee.Current.IsTextElement Then
       pOriginOld = Ee.Current.AsTextElement.Range.Low
       Ee.Current.AsTextElement.TextStyle.Justification = msdTextJustificationCenterBottom
       Ee.Current.Rewrite
       pOriginNew = Ee.Current.AsTextElement.Range.Low
       pOffset.x = pOriginOld.x - pOriginNew.x
       pOffset.y = pOriginOld.y - pOriginNew.y
       pOffset.Z = pOriginOld.Z - pOriginNew.Z
       Ee.Current.AsTextElement.Move pOffset
       Ee.Current.Rewrite
    End If
Loop
End Sub

In this example, all texts are aimed at the "bottom center" (msdTextJustificationCenterBottom)

The following (from VBA Help) is a list of all valid values for the orientation: