Stretchy text boxes...

[Anonymous]

Hi guys.... I'm having a confusing time with some GDL....

If I just get some 2D text and create an object it exports to a DWG just fine.... but if I make the box stretchy it looks fine in AC and PM but the moment I export to DWG, the result looks like pooh...

Here is the script I use for my stretchy text box...






DEFINE STYLE{2} "AC_STYLE_1" "Stylus BT", 0.2, 0

PARAGRAPH "AC_PRG_1" 1, 0, 0, 0, 1
PEN 3
SET STYLE "AC_STYLE_1"

"THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG, THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG.."

ENDPARAGRAPH
TEXTBLOCK "AC_TEXTBLOCK_1" a, 7, 0, 1, 1, 0,
"AC_PRG_1"
RICHTEXT2 0, 0, "AC_TEXTBLOCK_1"

[Anonymous]

bump...

[TomWaltz]

Nefarious wrote:
bump...

huh?

[Anonymous]

TomWaltz wrote:

Nefarious wrote:
bump...

huh?

Any ideas tom?

[Anonymous]

Someone must have an idea...

Currently I cannot print my documents... please help

[Frank Beister]

I guess it's more a Problem of the settings of the DWG filter.

[TomWaltz]

Nefarious wrote:
Someone must have an idea...

Currently I cannot print my documents... please help

Without knowing what the problem actually is other than "it looks bad", we cannot say. Maybe a screenshot would help.

How does this conversion affect you being able to print? Are you printing Archicad drawings in AutoCAD for some reason?

Sometimes we need a little more info to be able to answer something.

[Anonymous]

TomWaltz wrote:

Nefarious wrote:
Someone must have an idea...

Currently I cannot print my documents... please help

Without knowing what the problem actually is other than "it looks bad", we cannot say. Maybe a screenshot would help.

How does this conversion affect you being able to print? Are you printing Archicad drawings in AutoCAD for some reason?

Sometimes we need a little more info to be able to answer something.

When I say it looks bad.... The formatting of the text in the box is completely different, the width seems to be affected, the boxes become less wide and much taller... so the documentation ends up overlapping the plan in weird areas etc...

When I say "I cannot print" I guess I was overstating... I should have said I cannot export to DWG correctly...

I have tried every relevant switch and toggle in the translator but have not found anything that affects these text boxes...

[TomWaltz]

Nefarious wrote:
When I say it looks bad.... The formatting of the text in the box is completely different, the width seems to be affected, the boxes become less wide and much taller... so the documentation ends up overlapping the plan in weird areas etc...

When I say "I cannot print" I guess I was overstating... I should have said I cannot export to DWG correctly...

I have tried every relevant switch and toggle in the translator but have not found anything that affects these text boxes...

My suspicion is that there is something in the stretched text box that either the translator or AutoCAD cannot process correctly and is making a narrower text box than you expect.

I've avoided the RICHTEXT stuff inside GDL like the plague, so I really cannot say for sure.

[Anonymous]

How would I go about making the same object without using rich text?