So, keep in mind that, using ‘R’ for rotation aligns the text with the linetype direction in a relative manner. Notice, however, that the result of a vertical placement does not show any difference between the two settings. So, changing the rotation of the current UCS does not vary the behavior. The behavior of the text in each scenario depends on the World UCS, so the view rotation, even by DVIEW à Twist does not affect the outcome, positively or negatively. Notice how the plan readability is maintained only when using StormU (rotation set using the ‘U’ variable). On the left is “StormR” with “StormU” on the right and direction arrows showing the direction they were drawn. Since project geometry is not always drawn horizontally, see what happens when they are drawn at varying angles. This shows the overall behavior of the text when looking at horizontal lines. In this linetype style, you can see how the text is correctly oriented to the view direction. This behavior ignores the toggle of annotative text where the orientation is supposed to match the view direction. In the alternate direction, right to left (bottom), the image shows how the text turns upside down. The first one is the “StormR” linetype which shows the desired behavior when drawn left to right (top).
To do this, I will draw two lines for each linetype, left-to-right (top) and right-to left (bottom), with arrows to emphasize the direction drawn. To be clear, this discussion applies to polylines as well. *StormR,StormR -ST-ST-ST-ST-ST-Īfter loading them both in a drawing, I will show the difference in behaviors between the two using line objects. In the linetype file, they are defined with this coding: Right? Let’s look at a variable or setting in the linetype file that controls the behavior the orientation of the text.įirst, we’ll load two differing linetypes that differ by how they treat text rotation: “StormR” and “StormU”. For those of you who use text in your custom linetypes within AutoCAD-based program (likely to be a lot of us), you may have noticed that the need to read the text “right side up” can be trying at times.