Balloon Sizes Change??

[diamondcat]

SWX 2003 5.0

I have been having some weird balloon problems in my drawings. I also have some general questions.

1) I put the balloons in the assembly. I select a balloon circle to move it on the sheet and it visually changes size (smaller). If I do a rebuild and zoom out then back in, it goes back to it's normal size. I recently started using a new computer with a NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 video card.
2) We write text next to our balloons. When I plot or print the file, the text prints over the balloon even if they show up fine on the drawing file. I have to move the note pretty far away from the balloon to get the text not to write over the balloon.
3) On our assembly files, we always put the item information next to the balloons. Is there an option or macro out there somewhere that allows me to put a balloon on the assembly, type in muti-line text, then pick which side of the balloon it shows up on? This seems like something that I should be able to do. Right now we just put in the balloon and then write text next to it. The problem with this is that the text doesn't move with the balloon and also the problem mentioned above with the text overlapping the balloon.

Thanks,
Lori

 

[ctopher]

Sounds like a display problem causing the balloons to scale. I have never seen that. I did have other weird display problems with 2003 SP5.
As far as the text, it is a problems with a lot of users. If the text is right of the balloon, left justify the text. Right justify if to the left of the balloon.

 

[diamondcat]

Actually, the justifying of the text might help because I mostly have the problem when my text is to the left of the balloon. The only problem is that my text is multi-line text and I hate to have to right justify the text when it is on the left side of the balloon.

Thanks,
Lori