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stephenr 
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Posted: 05.Nov.2014 at 17:31 |
I have various sheet templates in both .DWT and .DWG format. In both formats the sheets look fine; however, when I bring the (.dwg) template into another drawing by means of the layout tab, the type-written elements on the sheet lose all of their formatting. The drawn element - the sheet size - appears OK. Any idea what might be causing the hiccup?Regards
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John Connor
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Posted: 05.Nov.2014 at 18:06 |
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What is a "type-written element"? Is it Text or MText or is it something you created in MS Word then cut and pasted into the drawing?
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stephenr
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Posted: 05.Nov.2014 at 18:07 |
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It was MText
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John Connor
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Posted: 05.Nov.2014 at 18:25 |
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I cannot come up with a reasonable explanation for why that should happen or even how it could happen.
My quick test did not encounter any such problem. I created the text in model space using MText then did a copy/paste to a layout in a totally different drawing. All formatting was retained.
Attach a copy of the text, or portion thereof, you are having problems with to your next post.
Edited by John Connor - 05.Nov.2014 at 18:31
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stephenr
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Posted: 05.Nov.2014 at 19:12 |
Thanks John, I think I've probably made some mistake in setting up the whole template and not just the text element. I'd copied it from another and then scaled up from A3 to A2 and A1, although I'm having probs with all of them. I'm going to start again and see what happens. Thanks anyway Stephen
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stephenr
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Posted: 05.Nov.2014 at 21:44 |
One other thing that I have noticed is that the A3 template, which perfectly scale at 420x297 in the template, is reading 42000x29700 in the drawing that I am bringing it in to. What on earth have I done wrong?Stephen
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stephenr
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Posted: 05.Nov.2014 at 22:28 |
One other thing that I have noticed is that the A3 template, which perfectly scale at 420x297 in the template, is reading 42000x297000 in the drawing that I am bringing it in to. What on earth have I done wrong?The attached screenshots show: 1. The pagesetup manager seems to be uncontrollable - set at 1:1000 despite me constantly setting it to 1:1. Is this causing the above problem. 2. Shows the page as I want it - sorry about the resolution 3. Shows the page as it's coming in to the drawing tab.
Stephen
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Kent Cooper
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Posted: 05.Nov.2014 at 22:46 |
 stephenr wrote:
.... when I bring the (.dwg) template into another drawing by means of the layout tab, the type-written elements on the sheet lose all of their formatting. .... |
If you are bringing it in with Insert, and the host drawing contains a text Style of the same name but defined differently [different font and/or different fixed height or one has a fixed height and not the other], it would have results like that. If you are bringing it in with Xref, it shouldn't matter, because the text Style name in the Xref will have a prefix that will distinguish it from that in the host drawing, even if otherwise the names are the same.
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stephenr
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Posted: 06.Nov.2014 at 11:12 |
Thank you Kent. As noted, I am using the (layout?) tabs adjacent to the Model tab. I right click and select 'From Template'. There are pre-existing blocks sharing the same name in other tabs, where an older template drawing sheet exists, but the message I get when bringing the new template in to a new tab is that the 'duplicate blocks' are ignored - and I have proved that that is true by deleting and purging those blocks from the older drawing sheets before bringing in the new template - I still get the same distorted effect but without getting the message about duplicate blocks.As you will see, I am now realising that there is a seconday/supplementary problem, in that I cannot seem to get my Template page set-up to register anything other than a scale of 1:1000 - no matter how often I set it back to 1:1 it reverts to 1000. What is the over-ride on this? It seems to be what is causing the template to come in to my drawing at the size I described rather than a standard A3 as it is in my template drawing; whether it is also causing the distortion of my MText I don't know.
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John Connor
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Posted: 07.Nov.2014 at 11:27 |
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How about we cut directly to the chase? Attach a copy of the drawing (DWG file) to your next post so we can look at it ourselves. I think that would be the best option here.
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