Tcount Express Tool

[mdonald603]

Hi all,

It appears that the Tcount Express Tool has never been updated for annotative scales. When running the command, the text renumbers correctly but for some reason the scale changes and the text becomes huge. We then have to select the renumbered text and manually resize it back to the normal paperspace height.

Will this get fixed? We use it for renumbering our parking spaces.

Thanks,

Melvin

[dkoch]

Hi all,

It appears that the Tcount Express Tool has never been updated for annotative scales. When running the command, the text renumbers correctly but for some reason the scale changes and the text becomes huge. We then have to select the renumbered text and manually resize it back to the normal paperspace height.

Will this get fixed? We use it for renumbering our parking spaces.

Thanks,

Melvin
Well, considering that the Express Tools are an unsupported, "as is" offering for AutoCAD that are not even installed by default for ACA/AMEP/ADT/ABS, I would not make my workflow dependent upon any issues with an Express Tool being resolved in a timely manner.

I did a quick test in 2008 and see the issue you describe. Selecting the text after the fact and changing the paper space height back to the original value puts things back as expected - an extra step you would no doubt like to avoid, but....

For ACA/AMEP, if you have an actual object that represents each individual parking space, you might consider using schedule tags, with an auto increment integer manual property, for numbering.

[mdonald603]

Thanks for the response, David. You are correct. I will work up a schedule tag to use instead ot this express tool.

Thanks again.

[libbybapa]

The Express tools are all lisp routines and can be found in the directory. You can personally edit those lisp routines. The most notable change with annotation scaling is that the dimscale variable behavior has been changed. If you go into whatever lisp is dysfunctional and change any iteration of the use of the dimscale variable to (1/ "cannoscalevalue") it will fix the lisp as far as the annotation scaling update is concerned.

Andrew