Roof Wizard CAD provides comprehensive text tools for adding annotations, labels, and notes to your drawings. This guide covers setting up text defaults and using all text management commands.
🧾 Text Defaults
The Text Defaults command opens the Font Text Defaults dialog box, allowing you to set the properties for subsequently inserted text and text-nodes.
Click the True Type Font button to display font parameters. You can change options by copying those assigned to an existing text or text-node entity.
Setting Basic Properties
Field | Description |
Colour | Sets the colour for subsequent text entities. Opens the Defaults Colour dialog box. |
Layer | Sets the layer for subsequent text entities. Opens the Defaults Layer dialog box. |
Style | Sets the style for subsequent text entities. Opens the Defaults Style dialog box. |
Weight | Sets the weight for subsequent text entities. Opens the Defaults Weight dialog box. |
Font | Sets the font for subsequent text entities. Opens the Font File dialog box with all font files created using Text Create command. Standard font files include ISO, MICRO, MIL-STD, NEWS and CENTURY. |
Position and Offset
Field | Description |
X offset | Sets default offset for text entity with respect to the x-axis of current CPL during insertion. Text origin is offset from cursor location by this value in x-direction. |
Y offset | Sets default offset for text entity with respect to the y-axis of current CPL during insertion. Text origin is offset from cursor location by this value in y-direction. |
Size and Appearance
Field | Description |
Height | Multiplication factor applied to original height of each character (normally 1 unit). |
Width | Multiplication factor applied to original width of each character (normally proportional to height of 1 unit). |
Angle | Angle of width component relative to currently active CPL in degrees. 0 degrees is parallel to x-axis, positive values calculated anti-clockwise. |
Slant | Angle of height component from normal vertical position (-89 to 89 degrees). Positive values indicate forward slant, negative values indicate backward slant. Not relative to currently active CPL. |
Spacing
Field | Description |
Horizontal spacing | Horizontal distance between each character. Multiplication factor applied to current width. Value of 0 = no distance, value of n = distance of (n x text entity width). |
Vertical spacing | Vertical distance between each line of multi-line text. Multiplication factor applied to current height plus baseline distance. Value of 0 = only baseline distance, value of n = (n x text entity height) + baseline distance. |
Justification
Field | Description |
Horizontal justification | Horizontal position relative to selected point location. Options: Left (text starts at point), Centre (text centred on point), Right (text ends at point). |
Vertical justification | Vertical position relative to selected point location. Options: Bottom (text sits on point), Centre (text centred on point), Top (text hangs from point). |
Border and Style Options
Field | Description |
Boxed | Automatic enclosure options: None (characters only), Box (rectangular border), Oval (oval shape), Circle (diameter for one character), Fix-Circle (fixed diameter for one character). Multi-line text gets one border only. |
Underline | Automatic placement of lines under each text line. Options: No (characters only), Yes (automatically underlined). |
Overline | Automatic placement of lines over each text line. Options: No (characters only), Yes (automatically overlined). |
Display and Plotting Options
Field | Description |
Plot size | Relationship between text scale and view plot scale. Original (proportional to model scale), Plot Scale (constant size regardless of plot scale). |
Drawing | Orientation and visual display. No (oriented relative to active CPL), Yes (always parallel to screen regardless of view). |
Fixed Circle Diameter | Circle diameter for Boxed option Fix-Circle only. |
Plotting | Plot visibility. Yes (text will be plotted), No (text will not be plotted). |
Plot Size - full size, plot scaled
The text entity may be orientated relative to the active CPL on which it was originally inserted. If Yes is selected, the text entity will always be parallel to the screen, irrespective of the view selected.
Copying Settings
The Copy option allows default settings of an existing text entity to be copied into the Text Defaults dialog box. Colour, layer, style and weight are determined by current values in the Defaults command.
🔧 Text Editing Commands
Text Edit
The Text Edit command allows part of the text assigned to a selected text entity to be edited. Select the text entity first, then the Change Text dialog box displays the original text for editing using standard text editor procedures.
Dialog boxes can be disabled via the Defaults Switches menu. With this method, specify the part of original text to change, followed by replacement text. The backslash (\) procedure can be used during editing to add new lines.
Text Edit-Multi
The Text Edit-Multi command allows part of the text assigned to multiple selected text entities to be edited simultaneously. Select the text entities first, specify the text to replace via the Text to Replace dialog box, then specify replacement text via the Replacement Text dialog box.
Text Move
The Text Move command allows a text entity to be moved by specifying a new origin location. Select the text entity, then select a new point location for positioning the origin.
If the appropriate defaults drag option is active, the selected text entity will appear dynamically moving with cursor movements. The origin is at the crosshairs, assisting accurate location. Continue selecting new origin locations to temporarily move the text. Execute the actual move by aborting further selections with the abort button.
Text Copy
The Text Copy command allows translation of a single text entity by a selected distance and direction. Select the text entity to copy, then locate the new origin position. New text entities are continually added at selected origin positions until the command is aborted.
Note: Only the text entity is copied - no associated entities are copied or stretched.
Text Delete
The Text Delete command permanently removes selected text entities from the database. Confirmation of selected text entities is required.
Text Del-Node
The Text Del-Node command permanently removes selected text node entities from the database. Confirmation of selected text node entities is required.