Does anyone know how VisualARQ reads Rhino Annotation Styles?
It seems like VA picks up the Rhino Annotation Style properties, and applies the ‘Model Space Scale’ factor to text showing in the Plan view (placed in the model space).
In the image shown below, I use a 1:50 annotation style when I define the style properties (the Model Space scale is 0.05, and Adjusted text height is 0.15, my model units are meter, layout units are mm). With this 1:50 annotation style, I can draw a 0.15m tall text in model space that appears as 3mm tall text in a Layout, thus text drawn appear to be the same size when using the same annotation style in either ‘space’.
To describe the image below:
plan view in model space
model in model space
Layout, showing the Plan view show in number 1 at left
m = green dimension in model space, L = black dimension in Layout space
Currently, the text in the Plan View is becoming proportionally Bigger, therefore scaling in the opposite direction as what I might expect for use in a Layout.
–If I define the Section Style Properties as an Annotation Scale of 1:50, should the text size become smaller so that it reads correctly in a Layout Detail view scaled 1:50?
There is an already known issue which involves annotation styles working in Plan Views; it looks like the problem is the “Model space scale” value. Please, try using 1 as a value for this factor. We are already working on this, so I have already added your vote in our wishlist.
I just want to let you know that we have already released VisualARQ 2.13, which fixes this problem you reported about dimensions being generated in a different scale in plan views.
I now use Visual ARQ 3 and also have problems here with Model space scaling and Visual ARQ text.
When set to 50, the text of stairs becomes larger than the drawing. How can I fix this so that Visual ARQ always uses 1 and not the value of the current annotation style
Hi @Jan_Van_Loy the stairs always use the text size of the current Rhino annotation style. Right now it is not possible to set a different value, but we plan to improve this in future releases.
Hi, please what do you mean by that? Can I manage how the staircase annotations look in VA, most importantly their scale? (I haven’t tried many other objects yet.) I suppose it it is not the vaAnnotationStyles command as I was unable to make any sense out of it.
When I choose a right style as “current”, VA will display correctly. The 0001 style I use here has scaling set to 1. When setting that one as current I can still use model-space scaling with my other annotations, it seems.
@omichalek The stair step numbers have a fixed text size of 0.12m. This size is affected by the Model space scale of the current Rhino annotation style.
I didn’t explain it properly before, excuse me for that.
We plan to add more control of the stair text attributes in future versions, so I’ll keep you posted.
