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oblique text in acad 2000

oblique text in acad 2000

oblique text in acad 2000

(OP)
I am having problems obliquing text in 2000.
The acad help tells me that I should be able to assign minus angles to the oblique field, but when I do it says 'invalid Argument angle in obliqueangle property'
I am trying to assign rotation angle 30, oblique angle -30 to get the text inside an instrument cloud to appear correct on an iso.

Any ideas?

RE: oblique text in acad 2000

try using angle = 330 instead of -30

RE: oblique text in acad 2000

(OP)
admiralken, thanks for the response, I tried this but it came back with the same error. It errors when any angle in excess of 150deg is put in.
I am sure that in previous versions of acad it accepted both 330 and -30?

RE: oblique text in acad 2000

You need to define the text "style" where you can provide an angle for obliquing.  The command may be STYLE or TXTSTYLE, I cannot remember.

This is different from rotation when using TXT command.

It may be that the FONT chosen cannot be obliqued, in which case use a simpler one or try using TXT instead of MTEXT, DTEXT etc.

Sorry if I have stated the obvious!

Hope this helps

RE: oblique text in acad 2000

(OP)
Knowkeys, thanks for the response.
It turned out that the font I was using could not be obliqued. I used MTEXT, and set the angle in the STYLE window, and this worked a treat. Thanks again.

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