align text with angled line

[ray salmon]

tried the alignment tool but no

so presume this is an eyeball thing

unless better way???

ray

[Andre Carvalho]

Unless the text is part of an annotation family (like a note) and then you can pick the reference planes from the family as an entity to align, I think the answer is no.

Andre Carvalho

[aaronrumple]

To get the same angle... use the rotate tool. Place the center on the angled line. Select a point parallel to the base of the text as the start point. Then rotate to the angle. This will at least get it perefctly to the same angle. The position is eyeball.

[Gadget Man]

Sometimes, when the angle you want is very small, text will snap to horizontal (or vertical) which is not desired.

To work around this you may temporary turn your text int a group, rotate it as desired (even to a very small angle off the horizontal/vertical) and than ungroup it.

[dbaldacchino]

Another trick I use when rotating small angles that give trouble (when they won't rotate due to snapping), is to add a certain number of degrees to my desired rotation (say, add 30 degrees to the 0.03 degrees I want to rotate, so rotate 30.03) and then rotate back by the amount previously added (ex: 30 degrees).

[ray salmon]

Unless the text is part of an annotation family (like a note) and then you can pick the reference planes from the family as an entity to align, I think the answer is no.

Andre Carvalho

soory don't know what an anotation family really is...

r

[Joef]

When snapping is getting in the way of placing a line or rotating something try typing SO. It will turn the snaps off temporarily.