14 Replies Latest reply on Sep 10, 2014 9:02 AM by Jim Gaffney

    eDrawings font rendering

    Michael Johnson
    Michael Johnson May 20, 2011 10:21 AM

      We have a set of drawings with a common statement inside the title block.  The text looks fine with SW, but in eDrawings the text is mashed together and almost un-readable.  Anyone encounter this before, or find a fix?

       

      Thanks for the help.

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        • Re: eDrawings font rendering
          Deepak Gupta
          Deepak Gupta May 20, 2011 10:37 AM (in response to Michael Johnson)

          Welcome to SW forums Michael

           

          Never encountered this problem. Does it happen with all files? Can you paste those information as a picture or text block and check. Also can you put up a screen shot of how they appear in SW drawing and eDrawings. And one sample of each to test.

           

           

          Also read this post for your future reference: Forum Posting

          • Re: eDrawings font rendering
            John Summers
            John Summers May 20, 2011 11:22 AM (in response to Michael Johnson)

            Are the notes in your titleblock blocked or contain unusual text formatting?  I have noticed strange behavior with eDrawings from SW drawings containing blocks - they tend to flip, move, invert, etc.  It seems that eDrawings doesn't recognize the proper applied text formatting (justiification, fit, revolve, etc) when a block is created. 

             

            Just a thought...

            • Re: eDrawings font rendering
              Ravi Teja
              Ravi Teja May 20, 2011 11:31 AM (in response to Michael Johnson)

              Hi Michael,

                            Does that text in ur title block contains Bullets or ordered lists or "Plus or minus" symbols or "Degree symbols" or nething other than Alphabets??..............I suggest you type those thing in a WORD document and paste them in ur title block..and see if the issue still persists

              • Re: eDrawings font rendering
                Michael Johnson
                Michael Johnson May 20, 2011 2:47 PM (in response to Michael Johnson)

                Thanks for the tips.  I'll pass them along to our drafter.

                 

                I  have attached a .jpg showing the compressed text as seen in eDrawings.  (Note: the "broken glass" areas in the graphic are used to filter  information, not part of my problem).

                 

                I appreciate the help!

                • Re: eDrawings font rendering
                  Joseph Rinek
                  Joseph Rinek Feb 3, 2014 7:54 PM (in response to Michael Johnson)

                  Not sure if this is directly related to what you are experiencing, but in newer versions of eDrawings, either 2013 or 2014 I believe, if your Windows system font is scaled larger than the default for that specific windows display resolution, eDrawings seems to upsize the font accordingly. The only workaround I have found is to have my Windows system font set at the default size for my screen resolution. For example, my Windows 7 font is set at "smaller (100%)". If it was set at "medium (125%)", eDrawings upscaled the font in all of my drawings. Solidworks knows about the problem, but they have said there will be no fix since there is a workaround. They also said another fix was to save every drawing file as an eDrawings file as well which seems completely impractical. As amazing as it is, Solidworks truly took over Windows, and forces you to use a certain font or you can't use their program.

                  • Re: eDrawings font rendering
                    Bryce Gill
                    Bryce Gill Sep 3, 2014 3:03 PM (in response to Michael Johnson)

                    Digging up an old topic here, but the question is still flagged as unanswered and I have been unable to find a satisfactory response to the problem anywhere.

                     

                    To be specific, the problem is:

                     

                    When the Windows font size is set to anything but the default (100%) scaling, eDrawings scales the size of lettering in annotations in SolidWorks drawings. See below screenshot comparison for the change that occurs. The "correct" font screen capture is from eDrawings with Windows font scaling set to 100%; the "incorrect" capture is from the same document with no changes made except resizing the Windows font up to 125%.

                     

                    correct:

                    correct.PNG

                     

                    incorrect:

                    incorrect.PNG

                    I am using Windows 7 x64 and eDrawings 2014 x64.

                     

                     

                    This error occurs both in the native eDrawings interface and in an embedded eModelViewControl window, and the incorrect font scaling carries to printed copies as well as the onscreen view.

                     

                    So, has anyone come up with a solution to this problem? Is there a fix inbound? Is there any way to deal with this aside from telling my users that they have to re-size their windows font?

                    • Re: eDrawings font rendering
                      Jim Gaffney
                      Jim Gaffney Sep 10, 2014 9:02 AM (in response to Michael Johnson)

                      Have known of this issue for some time.  Interested in the fix.  Same look as what Bryce Gill  posted in his pics