rotating text

Hi all,

I really need help with this, Im working on a topographical survey, I have
the original with the all wrong levels, and a new processed points dwg which
has the new correct levels on. ALL levels are in exact same place but on the
original they are rotated in line with the road and on the new 1 they are
all at zero rotation. Is there a lisp routine out there that can rotate and
posibly move the new levels so they are exactly where the old 1s are?

any help will be much appreciated, if u need more info let me know
Thanks
RS

 

A mass rotation routine is pretty simple if an insertion point can be the
origin of the rotation.

The moving part is tougher. You said the "levels are in the exact same
place", but then you said you want to"move the new levels so they are
exactly where the old 1s are". I'm confused.

 

haha ye just read it, is a bit confusing. each level which is in text is
accompanied by a point which is also the insertion point of the text, it
wont be a case of a mass rotation because the angles change as the road
curves round. once the text is rotated its not going to be much of a problem
moving them to best fit (so it looks presentable basically), but the points
stay where they are, if that makes sense.

 

It does sound like fun.

i really isn't

yep 2 different files, but it's nothing for me to bring them both into 1
file but on different layers, then wblock when its done.

the points are the same, and will remain the same, and the text is rotated
and moved around those points to make it look presentable, trouble is
because the road curves round the angle of the text is different throughout.

I have tried using 'matchprop' but it only changes angle of text and not
base point as well. If u know of a comand that does both i rekon that would
be the way to go.

thanks for ur help

 

actually since i posted the question I got through bout 70% of the drawing
so far, so I'll prob just stick with it, but this isnt the first time Ive
had to do this and that little run down of what a lisp would look like
sounds good, I know someone that could put all that in lisp form, I'm only
good with the basic stuff like editing the acad.lsp for new commands and
basic routines, nothing like that^^^.

anyway, thanks again for ur help, it's much apreciated
RS

 

If you want these points to rotate around their insertion points that's
good. If you want to rotate them by varying amounts, that's bad. It will
require a human.
If large groups of these points are to be rotated the same amount, that
could be done by lisp, and might save the human some time.

 

Hmm,

What you're looking for I don't have. It also could be done with VB or
VBA however. Using each insertion point you could reach out to the
polyline in a bounding box fashion. By finding the intersections of the
(invisible) text box and the selected polyline one could discern the
local angle.

At any rate, you may be interested in
http://www.caddproductivity.com/survey.htm

Using the Export function, write selected entities to a survey format
(x,y,z,point#,description) *.csv (XL) file.

Then use the Import function to insert blocks, text, points and/or
coordinate markers per each unique description. Unfortunately however,
rotation is not currently an option.


Mark Frise
www.caddproductivity.com