Rob Lloyd Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Hi all, I'm adding some truss to a design using the file supplied by the exhibition stand designer. For some reason the text on the hoist symbols is coming out tiny (see attached picture). I have searched the net for answers and tried various things but for the life of me can't seem to change it! I'm sure it's something really simple, any ideas? This is in Spotlight 2020. Thanks, Rob. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted December 11, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 11, 2019 This is a global setting for all the hoists in the document. In the Default Spotlight workspace the text size for the Hoist Number and the Dimensions are set with a menu command. Spotlight>Hoists>Set Hoist Number and Dimension Display. Quote Link to comment
Rob Lloyd Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 Thanks Kevin, I knew there would be a simple solution! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee TomWhiteLight Posted December 12, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 12, 2019 You can also drag and drop a text style from the resource manager onto the hoists.... Quote Link to comment
Rob Lloyd Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 @TomWhiteLight thanks for the tip, didn't know about the drag and drop. Every day is a school day! 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted December 12, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 12, 2019 @TomWhiteLight 3 hours ago, TomWhiteLight said: You can also drag and drop a text style from the resource manager onto the hoists.... This may work but probably will not stay when the object is modified. The object looks to the settings created by the menu command because there are multiple text objects with different attributes in the same object. 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee TomWhiteLight Posted December 12, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 12, 2019 Interesting, is there a way to get the Set Hoist Number and Dimension Display to reference a text style like the dimension tool does? Could be a VE? Unless text style linked to classes would work? Would probably be neater. Quote Link to comment
Mike Wright Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Most text seems to operate best at default size if you are working in a 1:50 screen scale Quote Link to comment
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