Ive recently registered here so apologies if im posting in the wrong place.
Im doing a lot of drawings in paperspace (R5) and in general make great use of text fields. I wondered if there is a way to automate the scale text, ie 1:100 on a detail view using something like text fields. i wondered if this field could be bound to a detail view so there could be multiple detail view all giving the correct scale in the notes from their respective views. essentially id like to avoid the constant editing of notes in my templates.
Are there any scrips / ideas for this in the pipeline?
Hi Will,
I believe what you are just looking is the Annotation Scale feature that Rhino 5 offers.
When Annotations scale is âonâ in model, your text fields will appear full size in all the details regardless of scale.
For example, if you have two details on the layout, one is set to 1:100 and one 1:50, the text field will appear the same size in both. It will appear at the size it was created. For example, if the test is .25, it will display and print at .25 on the layout, regardless of the Detail scale.
The annotation scale works with text (including text fields), dimension, and there is a separate Hatch Scale option. We do have a very complete tutorial on Layouts here. Here is a small snip on Annotation scale
I hope this answers your question. I donât think you need s script, but all of these settings are scriptable.
If I got off track, please let me know.
Thanks for the reply. Iâm referring to the layout space scale of each detail view. Rather than type the text âScale 1:100â I was wondering if there is a text field option to associate to a detail view, does this make sense? Sketch attached.
Im trying to automate the fact I have to type â1:100â as text in the layout space. This would be good if it could âDetectâ the scale thatâs been set in the detail view in the paper space layout. I though using text fields would be logical. Did you see my diagram /grabs?
Iâm totally familiar with annotation scaling, this is another matter.
Hi Will,
Thank you for the image and the additional detail.
Sorry about the annotation lesson.
Yes - this something that I have missed in Rhino because I have used in AutoCAD.
It is already on the wish list. (RH-12602)
I added your vote for the feature.
Now maybe Dale has a way to extract this with a script and assign it as the test string.
But I donât believe it would update like the text field does, if the detail scale changed.
But I think that having detail scale as a text field would be very useful for my work, as well.
Annotation Scale doesnât appear to be implemented in V6 as it was in V5. Is it still possible to achieve the same effect in V6? How would I do this? Thank you.
