2006-08-25 12:01 AM
2006-08-25 02:56 AM
2006-08-25 04:43 AM
2006-08-25 10:53 PM
Dwight wrote:Thank You Dwight,
Expressing text height in "points" is archaic and unreliable as any Archicad user who changes fonts and has the new font at the same point size present larger or smaller than the prior font knows.
The poster means that he would like to establish the height of his lettering at a dimensioned height: ie: points AND mm or inches in height (at that particular scale). iee: 6".
This is an excellent approach since the drawing view will have many scale references yo guide sizing already.
This should be included as an essential ArchiCAD feature, but not so easy since lettering and the "letterbox" volume a letter applies in sizing itself is not easily addressed. Photoshop and all Adobe products have this feature, but they aren't real world like Archicad is. Perhaps someday Photoshop will have a scaling ruler in it, too.
2006-08-25 11:08 PM
2006-08-27 12:47 AM
Dwight wrote:The thing is if 'Pt's are units of distance(lenght/breadth/width);so are mm & inches in which case wouldn't it be simple to allow conversion to scalable text? Though I get your point about the autocad stick font.
When you state a letter height in inches, that is fine for the AutoCAD stick (it) font, but defining height is more complex for modern fonts.