"Smart Scale" fonts

[larryg]

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

[Yacine]

Can you upload it?

[Surrogate]

architectural drawings

in Visio ? You dont kidding ?

[Yacine]

architectural 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.

[vojo]

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

[Visio Guy]

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[Surrogate]

fonts 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.

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

[wapperdude]

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.