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David Jones
Joined: 01 May 2004
Posts: 61
Location: Inverell, NSW, Australia
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 Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject: Using the Spin Tool to Rotate A Number of Objects |
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Alfred,
Wild Tools is great.
I often have the need to enlarge a fence-cut section of a plan (eg for a sewer layout) and rotate it to best fit on to a drawing sheet. This involves rotating text which identifies manholes back to horizontal after the whole fence cut section has been rotated to best fit the drawing sheet.
The spin tool enables me to do this, but if the length of the text varies in each text block, and because the spin tool rotates about the centre of each text block, the identifying text which is normally left aligned doesn't quite stay with the location of the manhole on the drawing.
Is it possible for the spin tool to have an optional feature which enables the spinning to occur about the middle of the left end, centre, right end, top or bottom of the individual objects?
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pbacot
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
Posts: 844
Location: Northern California
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| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:30 am Post subject: |
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David,
You may be onto something. The Wildtools Scale tool has these options.
Peter
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Alfred Scott
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
Posts: 633
Location: Richmond, VA
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David,
Let me think about that for a few days.
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Derek
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
Posts: 567
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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Thinking out loud:
When spinning text, could/should the horizontal location of the spin center be determined by the justification of each text object.
Left Justified: spin around the left side
Center Justified: spin around the center
Right Justified: spin around the right side.
Perhaps another solution would be to have an option in the Rotate Tool that moves text with the rotation but doesn't change the angle of the text. This would be a one step solution to David's drawing process.
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