Text orientation

[Anonymous]

I have a line of text that i am rotating and when it gets to a certain point it "flipps" about the vertical axis so that it still reads "up", not reading upside down. I have an occation where i don't want it to do this. Is there a way to stop the veritical flipping?

thanks

donald mac donald

[Anonymous]

Barry,
Thanks for the reply.
We too find linking PMKs better than direct linking.

One problem with rotating drawings in plotmaker
is when we draw plans in AC we draw them so the
wide dimension of the whole drawing is horizontal so it will fit in
the layout at the largest scale it can (usually 1/4"=1'-0")
if we rotated the plan in PM we would have to bring it in
at a reduced scale to have it fit in the layout.

When the building plan is small even at our usual scale
we do rotate the plans in PM so that we can have say
three floor plans on one sheet. Saves paper!
Thanks,
Peter Devlin

[Mark Wallace]

The only way I've been able to lock text in 'an upside down weird angle' is to make the adjustment manually in the 'angle' box.

On my site plans, I run my courses and distances clockwise from the beginning point. When certain stretches are reached, the program likes to 'flip' the text upright (I guess to be more legible...which I allow on my building plans). This happens with the dimension tool as well as with text. The work around has been to make the adjustment in the 'angle' by subtracting or adding 180 degrees.

I'm intrigued that Graphisoft still hasn't addressed this one. In future upgrades, text angular positioning or alignment could be a 'preferences' item that can be set either globally or adjusted within the text or dimension tool.

Regards,

Mark R. Wallace AIA

Mac G3, 350 Mhz, 1 Gb RAM, OSX.3.7, ArchiCAD 7.0, Plotmaker 2.3 v3 OSX
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Mark Wallace Architect
Collegeville PA 19426-0537