Rotate text placed at arbitrary angle back to 0 or 90 degree
command or key-in for text that is placed at an arbitrary angle be easily rotated to sit at 0 or 90 degrees to match other text placed horizontally, without having to delete it and then re-entering it.
Tamica Sellars such tool doesn't exist and Rotate tool is not usable for such cases when multiple text elements are selected and each have different angle as rotate tool rotates relative to element and not to absolute angle. Propeties winows is a workaround not a solution as it is slow to select multiple elements and if text and cells are selected then are not grouped together. Please review the status of this request.
VBA macro is complicated and too advanced for such basic task. Formatting issues are common. We have a tool for Change Case but not a tool to simply adjust absolute rotation for text and cells. Element properties are not good alternative. Also option to match other text rotation would be nice or attach existing text to line. Of course such text formatting workflows should be replaced with items or other 2.5D GIS approach but unfortunately even Items also lack such tools.
In a wider context it would be helpful to be able to rotate a number of selected elements all to the same absolute angle in a single operation (which cannot be done from Element Properties). How about adding two options to the existing "rotate element" tool to make it more flexible: "to absolute angle" and "about element origin"?
Tamica Sellars such tool doesn't exist and Rotate tool is not usable for such cases when multiple text elements are selected and each have different angle as rotate tool rotates relative to element and not to absolute angle.
Propeties winows is a workaround not a solution as it is slow to select multiple elements and if text and cells are selected then are not grouped together. Please review the status of this request.
Hi Oto, In addition to Gerd's suggestion to use the Properties dialog, to achieve your request you can also use the rotate tool > Active Angle Method (see help https://docs.bentley.com/LiveContent/web/MicroStation%20Help-v21/en/ManipulateRotate.htmlf).
Why limit this to text? Let's have this implemented for cells as wel.
Select the text
Change its angle in the Element Info (Geometry section) to either 0° or 90°
VBA macro is complicated and too advanced for such basic task. Formatting issues are common. We have a tool for Change Case but not a tool to simply adjust absolute rotation for text and cells. Element properties are not good alternative. Also option to match other text rotation would be nice or attach existing text to line. Of course such text formatting workflows should be replaced with items or other 2.5D GIS approach but unfortunately even Items also lack such tools.
In a wider context it would be helpful to be able to rotate a number of selected elements all to the same absolute angle in a single operation (which cannot be done from Element Properties). How about adding two options to the existing "rotate element" tool to make it more flexible: "to absolute angle" and "about element origin"?