Out of scale text on some elements

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Hi, I am completely new to VisualARQ, please why is this happening? These all are three same staircases copied from one. I started with the millimetre template, only changed the precision setting:

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At one point I selected some rhino geometry using ctrl+alt+click (to select sub elements) along with the staircase (part). I am not sure but the glitch might have started at that point. Nonetheless it is quite erratic and in one moment a cut staircase will look alright, the next one the text will suddenly glitch without any change to the elements.

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When I export the staircases as rhino file, all the labels look the same, even if wrong:

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here is the file anyway:
250417 staircases.3dm (726.6 KB)

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Apparently you have enabled “model space scaling” and your annotation’s definition have some huge value for this scaling.
Cheers, Jaro

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I see, when I disable “model space scaling”, select everything, run vaUpdate, it fixes the text. Apparently, one needs to update the VA geometry from time to time - and one of the staircases was not “updated”?

And I have to decide whether to remake all my (Rhino) annotation styles to not use model space scaling…

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I would keep all styles with text scaling as disabled. This will help you with exporting to DWG also.
And I use different styles for model space and for layouts, and mostly I annotate at layouts, including all dimensions. Thus you will get the same height of dimensions for example despite of details’s scales.
Cheers, Jaro

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That is probably doable. I use something in-between I guess, scaling in model space enabled, in paper space disabled + separate styles by scale.

Neither makes perfect sense to me unfortunately. One of the reasons is this dialog, I will still have many styles (even if the only difference in them will be scale) but I will have to manually adjust all these sizes into unintuitive values for each style:

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Hunting mistakes, changing anything consistently will be tedious.

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@omichalek @jerry.bakowski
VisualARQ objects that have texts (like tags, sections, spaces…) use the text attributes defined by the current Rhino annotation style, including the “Model space scale” setting. These attributes can be overridden by object, or by style.

For example, in the case of a space:

Annotation attributes by Style:

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Annotation attributes By object (these values are only recognized when the Annotation Style set to the space style is set to “By Object”):

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The only exception of these text attributes assignment is with the stair object. The text of the stair steps have a fixed text size of 0.12m, affected also by the “Model space scale” of the current Rhino Annotation style. The rest of the text attributes are also taken from the current Rhino Annotation style.

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