Can't seem to move my Drawing Title anymore - corrupted file

[Anonymous]

Hi there,
this has been driving me crazy for quite a while, and I want to believe that there is some easy solution and I am just making a simple mistake.
We are using a few very simple custom drawing titles for all our drawings on the sheet.
I usually am able to drag the title anywhere on the sheet I want it to be. I active the drawing and click and hold down on the anchor point, a little submenue pop ups and voila (I attach an image).
Now, on some files, I have the issue that nothing happens when I click on the anchor point, and the drawing title staus in its position without being able to be moved.
Funny as is, if I copy clip this drawing into a new file, it works again.
Copying everything to a new file is not really an option, since I have way too many layouts defined already.
Any smart ideas? I even take the not so smart once.

Thanks

Bjorn

[Erika Epstein]

BjornATA wrote:

I attached the title as a zip file with the original title. Come to think about it...Erika, this might have actually been created by you back in the days (might have been Karim as well though).

Thanks

Moi? No, but thanks

[David Maudlin]

Bjorn:

First some information about the title object: is is from AC 11 (GDL version 23) and was drawn in the 2D Symbol Window, not scripted, so there is not much to see or change in the object itself.

I could not reproduce your bug, but sometimes the cursor would not respond to the corner hotspots (the center was always ok). You could try saving the title object as an AC 15 part (open it and Save As... in 15, giving it a new name to keep the old object as is) to see if that helps. When the corner hotspots stopped being recognized by the cursor I change from this Title to another, and then back, which fixed that issue, so you could also try that when the bug appears. I have the Title Type panel as part of my Info Box, so it is easy to change the assigned Title.

David

[Anonymous]

Have you tried selecting a different button on the Pet Palette then selecting the Move Sub-element button again? I have had a few instances when this has worked for me if things don't behave properly the first time.

[Anonymous]

@David:

Yes, I was aware it is an older version 2d window title. I am not much of a scripter and the people who set us up must nit be either
Switching in between titles did not help. I resaved the title block as AC 15 - still the same issue. Funny part, I can never grab the corner hot spot. Only the center. The fact that it works on some layout sheets but not on others in the same file, makes me think it is really not the title but somethign else causing this.

@s2art: Not quite following you. My problem is that the Pet Palette won't even come up, since the hotspots are not active.

[Anonymous]

Ok, one more for you guys. I gave up on our cutsom Drawing Title Block and am trying to tweak the NCS_15 on. Turns out it actually works quite well with little effort, but I am running into one little problem. I can't seem to change the text font type from the default one. Basically all options for font type and text size don't seem to have any impact on the title. Any idea?

I found this in the script:

else
sStyle = gs_drawing_name_font_style: gosub 1500: drawingNameFontStyle = iStyle
sStyle = gs_backref_font_style: gosub 1500: backrefFontStyle = iStyle
sStyle = gs_drawing_scale_font_style: gosub 1500: drawingScaleFontStyle = iStyle
sStyle = gs_drawing_number_font_style: gosub 1500: drawingNumberFontStyle = iStyle
sStyle = gs_draw_descr_font_style: gosub 1500: drawingDescrFontStyle = iStyle


so you would think there should be some way of entering it in the dialog box.


Never mind, found it 😉

[Erika Epstein]

Near the top of the Title tab, do you have "Uniform Text Format" checked?

[Anonymous]

BjornATA wrote:
Never mind, found it 😉

Erika,

thank you for the follow up, but I found it. Was buried in the sub folder structure of the setting , since you can adjust every item separately.
Now I am digging into the script trying to find the location of the Circle. There must be a way to get ti onto the right side. The flip works ok, but than you have to adjust the text and move it manually to the left, since it sticks to the circle.

[David Maudlin]

BjornATA wrote:
Now I am digging into the script trying to find the location of the Circle.

It is at Line 429 of the 2D Script:
CIRCLE2 radiusBubble, o, radiusBubble

David

[Anonymous]

Thanks David,
I guess I really have to dig deeper into gdl scripting to do what I wanted to do. I was hoping I could find a way of setting the hotspot of the circle to the end of the line (which is parametric though).
Well, will be a project for next weekend if at all. Current project unfortunately won't allow to take the time to investigate this right now any further. Thanks for all your help.
(now watch me doing all the work and once 16 arrives there is an option for this built in )

[David Maudlin]

BjornATA wrote:
I guess I really have to dig deeper into gdl scripting to do what I wanted to do. ... Well, will be a project for next weekend if at all.

This is a good exercise for improving your GDL skills: small scope, and this object only has one CALL statement (I think that is just for the graphic scale) so all the code is there to explore and manipulate.

Have fun!

David