topic Re: Mirror & rotating text in Libraries & objects

Mirror & rotating text

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:18:52 GMT

Hi there,
Can someone please help me with this, I have exhausted all my limited knowledge.
I do allot of 'typical' houses for a client & quite often we need to rotate/ mirror houses etc to suit clients req's.
This quick object I have madegives a quick room dimension. I would like the text to stay put whenever I rotate/ mirror the object.
It works in the majority of situations except when I 'mirror' in the Y-Plane, then the text flips to the other side of the centre point (sometimes clashing with furniture etc.
Can you please help me correct this.

Thanks.

Re: Mirror & rotating text

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:37:34 GMT

Maybe you should try the mirroring/rotating on a Layout.
Place the Drawing on a Layout and rotate it there.
Or you may experiment with saving it as Module, then placing the Module and playing with the setting that controls the rotation of Text within the placed module.
See the Help file for more info on this.

Re: Mirror & rotating text

Barry Kelly — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 02:51:21 GMT

Try using centre justified text in your object rather than left justified?
Barry.

Re: Mirror & rotating text

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:09:24 GMT

You can try this. Text object follows the behaviour of Text tool.
In text style definition, set anchor point to 5, as Barry said.

EPS = 0.0001
bCond = (SYMB_ROTANGLE > 90+EPS and SYMB_ROTANGLE <= 270+EPS)    ! 0 or 1

add2 A/2, B/2
rot2 180 * bCond
	
text2  0, 0, "Text"

del 2

If you have rot2 transformations in your script, it may be more complex.

Re: Mirror & rotating text

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:34:59 GMT

Hello,

On and after ArchiCAD version 13 the user can rotate the view, which
sometimes is messing the text rotation. You can request this, for example;


success = request("view_rotangle", "", angleViewRotation)
SYMB_ROTANGLE = SYMB_ROTANGLE + angleViewRotation
SYMB_ROTANGLE = SYMB_ROTANGLE -((SYMB_ROTANGLE > 360)*360)

This could be added after the first line of Oliver's code (if needed).

Hope this helps.

Regards, Juha