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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
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      See: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=14125#p14125

      TIG

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          dylan
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          Thanks Tig, thats a very useful addition that will get used.

          http://dmdarchitecture.co.uk/

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            This takes you to v1.3: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=19329#p19329

            It fixes a glitch in the TextTag Editing.

            You could select any component as if it were a TextTag and edit it !

            Now only lets you edit a TextTag...

            DXF export still WIP...

            TIG

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              This takes you to v1.2

              Dialog allows 'stand-off' of tag to be set, default=0.1"/1mm: this allows you to stand text-tags above the surface they snap to for visibility reasons...

              Cast/receive shadows can now be set: so if standoff needs to be quite large for visibility reasons and shadows need to be on the text-tag won't cast a shadow onto the face behind it...

              A Proto TextTag >>. DXF exporter has been started... BUT I've stripped it out of this release as it's still too flaky - probably see next release for this...

              TIG

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                Charlie__V
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                TIG,
                Thanks Lots,and timely as well for a foundation plan I was working on.(mid December)

                In my drawing I have experienced a long delay after editing any text tag, I can't say it is any one text tag for sure.
                I have a number of them, with varying attributes, yet I somehow suspect the delay occured after adding several text tags with bold text.
                Not a huge problem....just thought you would like to know.(perhaps you are already aware) Or it is something else entirely.
                I plan on saving the file in another name and deleting the bold text tags to see if they are the culprit.

                Best,

                Charlie

                Precision M1710/Win 7 Pro 64 bit/i-7 6920 Quad core 2.9 Ghz -3.8/16Gb ram/NVIDIA M5000M 8Gb

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                  stuartb
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                  dxf export still WIP TIG?

                  IMPORTING - sorted!
                  I am trialling Deep Exploration at the moment. It converts dwg to skp complete with text! (something Sketchup cant do currently) so I am happy that I can now get dwg into Sketchup.

                  EXPORTING - still a problem!
                  Sketchup - exports skp to dwg (inc dimensions) but no text-tag!
                  Deep Exploration - exports skp to dwg (inc text-tag) but no dimensions!

                  I need to use text-tag because 'normal text wont stay flat . . but I cant give copies of drawings to other consultants as dwg without losing text or dimensions.

                  Oh I do wish the SU team would sort this mess out.

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                    @stuartb said:

                    dxf export still WIP TIG?

                    IMPORTING - sorted!
                    I am trialling Deep Exploration at the moment. It converts dwg to skp complete with text! (something Sketchup cant do currently) so I am happy that I can now get dwg into Sketchup.

                    EXPORTING - still a problem!
                    Sketchup - exports skp to dwg (inc dimensions) but no text-tag!
                    Deep Exploration - exports skp to dwg (inc text-tag) but no dimensions!

                    I need to use text-tag because 'normal' text wont stay flat . . but I cant give copies of drawings to other consultants as dwg without losing text or dimensions.

                    Oh I do wish the SU team would sort this mess out.

                    The DXF Export of TextTags is still WIP. Needs a long stint of effort to read TextTags' attributes and make into MText definition and then add that to a DXF file etc...

                    SketchUp DOES Export TextTags as dwg or dxf (They come in as blocks - but are shapes rather than text - so later editing is NOT possible), BUT if you have the 'filled' version (without visible edges) they don't show up in some AutoCAD view style settings.

                    To help with this I have adjusted the 'Filled' setting for TextTags to Yes= filled, with NO edges; Yes+Edges= filled, WITH edges and No= Edges and NO faces... Then they do show up in the exported dwg in most 'styles' if they have edges set...

                    ...For new version see... http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=47399#p47399

                    TIG

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