Smarts Text - Cut and Fill Volumes - Show in Blue and Red

[Plheureux]

Is it possible to show cut volumes in red and fill volumes in blue when using smart text for a surface? I could have these as two separate pieces of text but wondering if there is a way to keep these grouped together and inherit these characteristics.

[alan.sharp]

You should be able to use the embedded smart text formatting - use F2 in the text edit function to pull up Raw Mode and then use \C5; for blue and \C1; for Red in the smart text

\C1;Smart Text String for Cut\P\C5;Smart Text String for Fill

You have to be in Raw Mode to do this - see my post from Friday on this in plotting and Drafting section (Multi Line Text Formatting).

Multi Line Text Formatting

Here is a great set of tips and format styles for Multiline Text creation that may be useful for putting complex text on drawings. The formatting described below is compatible with AutoCAD but not necessarily with Trimble Field Systems that use DXF and DWG format files. First, when you create a Text item, you define the text with its default Text Style - the Text Style defines the default text properties that are assigned to all of the characters and words in the text block you are creating - t…

Alan