Edited: Notes, plan views, and control of text style when generating note schedule

[GeneDavis]

I got more deeply into notes and note schedules after reading and participating in a thread about this a couple days ago.

 

In that thread, @gravattedesign wants the style to be, in layout display, 1/8" font height for the notes (numbers in circles or squares or whatever), and 3/32" for the note text.  I think he wants a third font height, even taller than 1/8", for the note schedule titles but that is a different topic.  

 

What we don't seem to have in Chief X14 is a way of controlling the scale of either of these text elements, what Chief terms "main" in the dialog, at the time we are generating the schedule.  There ought to be a way, like what we have when sending a view to layout, of specifying those text styles, sort of like the scale setting, before the view (or schedule) is generated.

 

I did a test plan in which I set text style for note numbers for 1/4 and 1/2 scale, the heights being 6 and 3 inches.  I created a "kitchen" note with the 3 inch style and a "floor plan" note with the 6 inch style.  Then I generated note schedules, and those schedules generate with "main" text styles per the one and one only schedules generation action we have.

 

What happens is seen in this image.

 

See what we are getting here?  The note text, the numbers in the circles, is set per the dialog that created the notes, thus the 3 inch height in one and 6 in the other.  The other text, that of the note line and the title above, come in at whatever settings we specify in the note schedule default.  I think it is best to do that default with layer text as the source, because of the way this all works now.

 

So notes schedules like this, when we have multiple display scales in our layouts, need fixing after they get generated.  The most direct way I have found is to create layers for each schedule scale.  I renamed the OOB layer as for 1/4 scale and did a new layer for 1/2 scale, and set layer text accordingly.  Here is what it is in the layersets dialog.  I forgot to edit the line weight settings, but they don't matter here for this discussion.

 

  

 

With this in place, you can reset the title and line text ("main" is Chief's bad term for this) so you then have schedules that look right for shipping to layout.  In this pic, you can see what I got editing the schedule for the 1/4 scale to have its layer be the 1/4 scale schedule layer.

And then when sending both to layout, setting scale appropriately upon entry into the layout generation, we get this, the desired look.

 

 

Is there an easier way?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[GeneDavis]

Bump.  I edited this heavily including the thread title, after 32 views happened, and some of you 32 might want to check the first post, the thread starter, again.