MTEXT Boundary Box initial size issues

[cabeaton]

When I select Multiline Text from the ribbon, I 'draw' the area that should set the boundary box range only to have the box then appear about 3k times larger than I had hoped. I don't think the Annotation scale should be causing this but then again I have no idea where to really begin looking for the problem.

I've only been working in '09 for a few days after upgrading from '06, so this could be a simple matter of adjusting to the new format. Let me know if this is the case.

[Jack Cheong]

When I select Multiline Text from the ribbon, I 'draw' the area that should set the boundary box range only to have the box then appear about 3k times larger than I had hoped. I don't think the Annotation scale should be causing this but then again I have no idea where to really begin looking for the problem.

I've only been working in '09 for a few days after upgrading from '06, so this could be a simple matter of adjusting to the new format. Let me know if this is the case.

When you draw a boundary box for the MText, you must have a reference, otherwise it will either too big or too small
That mean that you can take a object (the dimension must be nearest) as the reference, so after you draw a boundary box, you know what is the width of the boundary, so you can desire the correct text size to show
If the drawing is empty, just draw a line 100 units as reference, if your text size is 2.5 or more, it should show correctly
Help this is what you want!

Jack Cheong

[cabeaton]

Every time this has happened I have been working in an existing drawing. Typically something that has been around since 1990 or earlier and has been updated as the software has been upgraded. If it is a simple matter of having a reference object in the drawing to work from then the problem should not be occuring. I'm not currently typing in dimensions for the boundary box desired size. Is this what I'm supposed to do now, or should the concept of draging from one corner to the desired opposite still work?

[Jack Cheong]

If it is a simple matter of having a reference object in the drawing to work from then the problem should not be occuring. I'm not currently typing in dimensions for the boundary box desired size. Is this what I'm supposed to do now, or should the concept of draging from one corner to the desired opposite still work?

It's not possible to typing the dimension for the boundary box
It's still the same, just drag from one corner to another corner for the boundary
Take a object as rference is just to know the size of the boundary, otherwise it can be either very small or very big