The Miracle (and Reality) of Civil 3D Label Text Sizing
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on August 31st, 2006
You've heard the rumors. And yes, they are true. CIVIL 3D AUTOSIZES YOUR TEXT ACCORDING TO YOUR VIEWPORT SCALE So you throw away that leroy chart you had thumbtacked to your cube wall. And you dive in to Civil 3D. And then... what the heck??? She said it would resize! Why is it so big? RETURN THIS SOFTWARE JUNK. Hold on. Autosize does not mean MIND READ. In the old world, you thought about your plotted text height- maybe say, 0.08". Then you did some mental math based on your drawing viewport scale, the angle of the sun and your lunch tab to come up with a textstyle height in model space that would plot for you. Change the scale of the drawing? Then you needed to reinsert all that text. Or maintain a duplicate. When I worked in the metric world in large neighborhoods, we maintained two sets of text. Text that was readable on 1:1000 drawings, and text that was readable at 1:500. Back here on the east coast with small sites, we varied from 1"=10' to 1"=500' and text was always an issue. So what does autosize mean then, Dana?
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