rotate text to horizontal in viewport

[tadthurston725387]

Hey all,
I have a drawing where my colleague rotated the view in the viewport 60 degrees and of course all the text is rotated as well. Is there a way to leave the viewport as is but rotate the text back to horizontal? I can rotate all the text individually but there is probably a better way.
Thanks,
TT

[MMccall]

Set the UCS to 'view'. Select all the text and set their rotation property to 0.


There's also a command for setting text rotation. Torient? It doesn't work on multileaders.

[Tom Beauford]

As everything we do in Civil 3D is referenced by coordinates I would recommend not changing from WCS to a UCS. You can use the DVIEW command's TWist option to twist a view to replicate the twisted Plan views Civil 3D creates. If there are any UCS's in the drawing they were not created by Civil 3D. For just about every other application of AutoCAD UCS's are quite useful. In Civil 3D work having more than one set of coordinates can be a disaster.

Love that Civil 3D labels display horizontally or at whatever angle we set them to. Always do annotation last on any drawing. I work with people who get frustrated when after adding a layout and setting a viewport scale their text and dimensioning doesn't look right. I explain how to avoid it in the future and cross my fingers.

[CCarleton]

If it's mtext you can select the text, and in the properties panel tell it to match drawing orientation and it will always display horizontally regardless of how you adjust the viewport.

[rmk]

If it's mtext you can select the text, and in the properties panel tell it to match drawing orientation and it will always display horizontally regardless of how you adjust the viewport.

can you explain that a litter further, not following "match drawing orientation". is that a setting, command or manually entering the angle of rotation.

[Tom Beauford]

Try this:

;| https://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?171018-rotate-text-to-horizontal-in-viewport&p=1332928&viewfull=1#post1332928
   http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=55060.msg595136#msg595136
   https://www.cadtutor.net/forum/topic/68912-setvar-snapang-using-lisp-with-greater-than-or-equal-condition/?tab=comments#comment-557172
Set block insert, text, mtext, & dimtext angle Horizontal by Tom Beauford
 (load "TextHoriz.lsp") TextHoriz
   Macro: ^P(or C:TextHoriz (load "TextHoriz.lsp"));TextHoriz
   Command line: (load "TextHoriz.lsp") TextHoriz |;
(defun c:TextHoriz (/ ss1 num cnt viewtwist snapang etype obj dimr)
  (setq ss1 (ssget '((0 . "insert,mtext,text,dimension")))
        num (sslength ss1)
        cnt 0
        viewtwist (getvar "viewtwist")
        snapang (- (rem (+ (getvar 'snapang) (/ pi 2.0)) pi) (/ pi 2.0))
  )
  (if (or (= snapang (* (/ pi 2) -1)) (= snapang (* (/ pi 2) 3)))(setvar 'snapang (/ pi 2)))
  (if(/= viewtwist 0.0)
	(repeat num
	  (setq ent (ssname ss1 cnt)etype (cdr(assoc 0 (entget ent))))
	  (setq obj (vlax-ename->vla-object ent))
	  (if(= etype "DIMENSION")
		(progn
		  (setq dimr (- (vla-get-Rotation obj)viewtwist))
		  (vla-put-TextRotation obj dimr)
		)
		(vla-put-Rotation obj (- viewtwist))
	  )
	  (setq cnt (1+ cnt))
	) ; repeat
	(repeat num
	  (setq ent (ssname ss1 cnt)etype (cdr(assoc 0 (entget ent))))
	  (setq obj (vlax-ename->vla-object ent))
	  (if(= etype "DIMENSION")
		(progn
		  (setq dimr (+ (vla-get-Rotation obj)snapang))
		  (vla-put-TextRotation obj dimr)
		)
		(vla-put-Rotation obj snapang)
	  )
	  (setq cnt (1+ cnt))
	) ; repeat
;	(princ "\nNo TWist in Viewport.")
  ) ; if
  (princ)
)

[CCarleton]

can you explain that a litter further, not following "match drawing orientation". is that a setting, command or manually entering the angle of rotation.

I was slightly off on the name, but attached images refer to what I am talking about.

If you have it off you can dink around with the rotation. If you have it on you can't, and it just makes it show up as if it was at zero degrees rotation.

[rmk]

I was slightly off on the name, but attached images refer to what I am talking about.

If you have it off you can dink around with the rotation. If you have it on you can't, and it just makes it show up as if it was at zero degrees rotation.

That only works with annotative text, right? that's a pretty neat tool. thanks for the info. I always fooled around with rotation or changing the orientation of the cross hairs or just living with it.

[CCarleton]

That only works with annotative text, right? that's a pretty neat tool. thanks for the info. I always fooled around with rotation or changing the orientation of the cross hairs or just living with it.

Yeah, it appears so. Never noticed that to be honest, but there you have it.