Wait a minute- text pen and text stroke are unrelated?

[Anonymous]

Sorry if this is a common sense or correct me if I am wrong- but why doesnt the text pen determain the stroke width of the text? Then how do you control the line width of text? My text is thin/light and is very hard to read.

[Laura Yanoviak]

HAL9000 wrote:
Sorry if this is a common sense or correct me if I am wrong- but why doesnt the text pen determain the stroke width of the text? Then how do you control the line width of text? My text is thin/light and is very hard to read.

Text is not dependent on the line weight of the pen, so the output is always consistent regardless of pen color (this is how most software works). If it needs to be heavier, either make it bold or use a different font. We used RomanS in AutoCAD and now use Arial in AC.

[Link]

HAL9000 wrote:
Sorry if this is a common sense or correct me if I am wrong- but why doesnt the text pen determain the stroke width of the text? Then how do you control the line width of text? My text is thin/light and is very hard to read.

ArchiCAD uses true type fonts, so we have the same formatting capabilities as most word processing programs. Use bold to change the appearance and use colors (in addition to layers) to help visually distinguish different text types.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Old AutoCAd habbits die hard!

[TomWaltz]

sort of.

The Archicad pen controls the color that the text plots, so you can use the pen to control whether the text comes out gray, black, or green. The weight of the pen doesn't affect the text weight, though.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the clarifing... definitely an AutoCAD habit

[Anonymous]

Do not use Autocad fonts with AC!
It cannot assing width to them and they print as hairline.
So does MSWord too.