You may want to use annotation scale on some labels and not on others. If you decide to use True Type fonts be sure the special symbols are available in that font.ĭetermine if annotation scale will be used with text elements. rsc fonts do.ĭetermine what special symbols you are using such as Centerline, Degree, Plus/Minus, fractions etc. Also note that text using True Type fonts does not support the line weight setting as MicroStation. Utilizing ByLevel Symbology for text color eliminates the need to create different styles based solely on variations in color. The direction of most CAD text support is moving away from the resource RSC and SHX fonts to using True Type fonts.Įach variation in font, size, justification and other text-specific parameter will require definition of a different text style. rsc file fonts, True Type fonts, and AutoCAD. MicroStation allows the use of the legacy MicroStation. Identify all of the different fonts used in your design files and CAD platforms. From your audit determine if your text styles will be stored in a single dgn library, or need to be separated by discipline into different dgn libraries. Categorize how you want to organize the standard text labels in your drawings. This information may be formally documented, or you may need to review text elements in different CAD files. Text Style ConsiderationsĬollect the specifications of all the standard labels used in your organization’s drawings. Another recommended naming convention is to denote somewhere in the text style name if the style uses annotation scale.Īn example would be to use an A- prefix, or an –A suffix, on all text style names that use annotation scale. As a result the text style names will denote the general type of annotation being placed. In most cases text style definitions are used across disciplines. Unlike levels, your text styles will most likely not be related to specific disciplines. Similar to level naming you will need to develop a common naming standard for text styles. Having such settings predefined as text styles minimizes the frequency of which settings need to be changed when placing text. Text styles contain specific predefined text format settings. We talk about them in our MicroStation CAD Manager class. Implementing text styles makes annotating the drawing more efficient in most situations. Now if only Autodesk knew about kerning, because the there is none in Revit, and that makes everything look half assed.Written by Bob Mecham Creating a Text Style Standard Text Style Naming I like Tekton as it's free, looks like technical pen not chisel pointed pencil, and well, Francis Ching for the win! And I sometimes use a hand lettered font for non titles. For important projects, using the clients own standard font or logo font can be nice. It looks a little more organic to me, which I prefer.įor presentations I like using something a little nicer, especially for titles.
I also like that, while sans serif, it's not the hard corners of Arial.
It looks good in all caps and sentence case, and at small and title sizes.
It's a standard font that just about everyone has, it looks good in print and on screen (Arial predates ClearType). And both look horrible.įor me, I like Calibri at. I think it's one reason why the OOTB symbols are retarded big with small text. Arial has the added fault of jumping around "vertically" when symbols are rotated.
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