Quite a while ago, someone posted an updated graphic drawing scale smart shape, similar to the "scale symbol" in the walls, shell and structure" stencil, but one that actually was useable for architectural drawings. Only issue I'm having is the size of the fonts is not sizeable and wondering if anyone was familiar with this shape and could offer some guidance.
thanks,
Larlry
Can you upload it?
Quote from: larryg on April 20, 2022, 01:23:25 PMarchitectural drawings
in Visio ? You dont kidding ?
Quote from: Surrogate on April 21, 2022, 10:32:44 AM
Quote from: larryg on April 20, 2022, 01:23:25 PMarchitectural drawings
in Visio ? You dont kidding ?
Not really, fonts can be sized by "mm" numbers, but I still have no clue of what the O.C. means.
One trick from circa 2005
in shape sheet
user.scale = width / 5mm
character size = 12pt * user.scale
this way if shape gets bigger, font increases....shape gets smaller font gets smaller
Text Resizing with ShapeSheet Formulas (http://www.visguy.com/2007/08/21/text-resizing-with-shapesheet-formulas/)
Resize Text With Metafiles! (http://www.visguy.com/2007/08/24/resize-text-with-metafiles/)
Casting Units in Visio's ShapeSheet (http://www.visguy.com/2006/10/03/casting-units-in-visios-shapesheet/)
Quote from: Yacine on April 21, 2022, 12:05:09 PMfonts can be sized by "mm" numbers
Of course you can set font size in "mm" via MS Visio user interface, but real font height not correspond these settings.
(http://indians.ru/fig/a-font-sizes/font-sizes-large.gif)
Different fonts have different equalents:
| | | 2,5 mm | | | 3,5 mm | | | 5 mm | | | 7 mm | |
| ISOCPEUR | | | 11pt | | | 15pt | | | 22pt | | | 31pt |
| Arial | | | 10pt | | | 14pt | | | 20pt | | | 28pt |
| Times New Roman | | | 10,5pt | | | 15pt | | | 21pt | | | 29pt |
Similar to what Vojo indicates...
1) Create a User-defined Cell, call it User.AntiScale, but set its value = ThePage!PageScale/ThePage!DrawingScale
2) Set the Character Size value = GUARD(12 pt*User.AntiScale*Width/4.75) Adjust the initial size, 12 pt, or the width factor, 4.75, to get the desired beginning size and the amount of variation with shape resizing.