Standardising Text height in AutoCAD prints
Standardising Text height in AutoCAD prints
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Dear Members,
I am in dire need of information on how text height can be standardised in different drawings of diffetent sizes and printed on different paper sizes.
Is is true there are standard text heights for different paper sizes? If yes, what are they?
How is text height manipulation different in Model space print-out and Paper Space print-out?
Is is possible to scale drawings to different sizes in model space and how?
Responses to these various questions will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Sam
I am in dire need of information on how text height can be standardised in different drawings of diffetent sizes and printed on different paper sizes.
Is is true there are standard text heights for different paper sizes? If yes, what are they?
How is text height manipulation different in Model space print-out and Paper Space print-out?
Is is possible to scale drawings to different sizes in model space and how?
Responses to these various questions will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Sam





RE: Standardising Text height in AutoCAD prints
Generally for normal texts I use height 2.5 (example: dimensions, notes, etc.), for title height 5. But the important is the scale than you are going to occupy at the time of printing. For example:
If the scale of drawing is 1:50 then the height for normal texts will be in ModelSpace equal to 50/2.5, that is equal to 20, therefore, for normal texts in ModelSpace will be 20 units (mt, cm, mm, etc.). it is the same for the others height, for 5 will be 50/5 = 10 in ModelSpace. This way at the time of printing the heights will be the suitable ones.
It agrees to draw in ModelSpace with real dimensions and in PaperSpace scale the drawing by means of the ZOOM command option S (example: 1/50xp). Previously there is than create windows with MVIEW command.
RE: Standardising Text height in AutoCAD prints
1) Create text styles than are based on whatever scale the drawing will be printed at. (For example, any of our text styles that are to be used for a 1:500 scale drawing end in M0500. M0250 indicates a 1:250 scale drawing text style.) The only downsides to this method are that you need to determine what scale the drawing will be at before you start putting any text in, and we ended up with about 50 different text styles in our template file.
2) Dimension everything in Paper space. This isn't TOO terrible given AutoCad's ability to do dimensions in Paper Space that are based on the Model Space dimensions, but hardly ideal.
Whatever you choose, always keep in mind that someone will mostly likely reduce your D (24x36) size sheet to Tabloid (11x17) and want it to still be fairly legible.
Dave
RE: Standardising Text height in AutoCAD prints
RE: Standardising Text height in AutoCAD prints
Flores
RE: Standardising Text height in AutoCAD prints
I dimension all of my drawings in model space (because my lack of training puts me at a disadvantage in paper space). When I plot I do a plot preview to confirm the legibility of the dimensions. If they need a hieght adjustment I can easily select all dimensions in the dimension layer, right click and select the properties menu and type in a new hieght for the text.
The results of this method are not always great but it is expedient therefore I use it.
If someone can easily describe a better way to me I would gladly switch.