Our System of Text Styles

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Power Tip: Understanding Text: Get To The Point

• How the Text Styles Work
• Benefits of Our Text Style System
• List of Our Text Styles
  • Callout Light
  • Callout Text
  • Callout Title
  • Concept Schedule (Discontinued March 2019)
  • Detail Text
  • Dimension Text
  • Lateral Size
  • Mainline Size
  • Photo Label
  • Plant Callout
  • Schedule Header
  • Schedule Text
  • Schedule Title
  • Zone
• Viewing and Configuring the Text Styles
  • The General Preferences
  • The Text Tool
• Default Fonts
• Change Your Font Settings Back to Our Previous Defaults
• Reload (Update) All Text Styles
• Related Webinars
• Troubleshooting

Our software includes a system of logical Text Styles. Each Text Style applies a several specifications (including font and point size) to a specific usage of text within planting, site, and irrigation design. By configuring our Text Styles, you can tailor the text in your drawings to meet your office standards – without having to wade through a sea of non-standard styles and fonts.

How Our Text Styles Work

Each of our Text Styles is assigned to a specific application of text as it appears in your drawings when you use our software.

For example, the Plant Callout Text Style applies to the text within your plant labels. Each time you place a plant label, the text within that label will automatically take on the Specifications currently assigned to the Plant Callout in the Text Manager.

 

 

In the example to the right, the Plant Callout style is currently assigned the font Arial and a point size of 12.5. As a result, plant label text will come in as 12.5-point Arial.

For more details on configuring the specifications for the Text Styles, please see our Customize the Default Text Styles documentation page.

Benefits of Our Text Styles System

Our Text Styles system offers the following advantages:

• Maintenance of office standards and CAD management of the standard fonts used by your office.

• Unique Text Styles that relate to a specific project will be set as active automatically when you open that project.

• The project and office standard Text Styles can be changed easily. Any changes made to the text styles will be reflected in future drawings.

• Text Styles are sized by point size. They will be scaled automatically for the same output, no matter whether they are entered into Model Space of varying scales, or into Paper Space.

List of Our Text Styles

Each of the Text Styles listed below is included in your installation. You can choose to keep our default settings for each style or edit them to meet your needs.

The most common text styles to review early on in using our software are the Schedule Text and Schedule Title styles, which control the text for Planting, Irrigation, and Reference Notes Schedules.

Along with our October 2023 fonts update where we've removed SHX fonts in favor of TTF fonts, we've made some changes to the fonts assigned to the Text Styles in our default Preference Set. Under each Text Style listed below, you'll see the default font we've assigned to it, which you're free to change as needed. For a comparison of our default fonts assigned to each Text Style before and after the update, see our updated Text Style fonts list.

Callout Light

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std Light

Applies to:

• Callouts, including:
• Northing/Easting Points
• Slope Callouts
• Spot Elevations
• Irrigation equipment symbols, including spray heads and wire bundles

Callout Text

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std

Applies to text associated with:

• Detail callouts
• Reference Notes (RefNotes)
• RefNote callouts
• Custom Lines
• Irrigation equipment such as decoders, enclosers, and caps

Callout Title

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std

Applies to:

• Detail numbers within detail callouts
• RefNote codes within RefNote callouts

Concept Schedule (Discontinued March 2019)

We've removed the Concept Schedule style as of March 2019. The Schedule Text style will now apply to text in the Concept Plant Schedule.

Want to give your Concept Plant Schedules their own text style, separate from the Schedule Text style? Here's how.

We've discontinued the Concept Schedule Text style to simplify and improve several tools. We recommend updating your office's Preference Set standards in accordance with this change, and only using the solution linked above for past projects.

Detail Text

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std Light

Applies to text that appears within details

Dimension Text

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std Light

Applies to text that appears within dimensions

Lateral Size

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std Light

Applies to lateral pipe labels

Mainline Size

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std Narrow Bold

Applies to mainline pipe labels, as well as mainline equipment such as controllers, master valves, backflow devices, water meters and POCs, flow sensors, flow meters, flush valves, and wire bundles.

Photo Label

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std

Applies to photo callouts for:

• Plants
• RefNotes
• Site amenities
• Lighting components

Plant Callout

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std

Applies to text within plant labels

Schedule Header

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std Bold

Applies to column headers within schedules, including:

• Plant Schedule
• Irrigation Schedules

Schedule Text

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std Light

Applies to text within schedules (not the schedule title), including:

• Plant Schedule
• Concept Plant Schedule
• Irrigation Schedules
• Site schedules such as:
  • RefNotes Schedule
  • Lighting Schedule
  • Zoning Schedule
  • Site Development (Estimator) Schedule
  • Grading Schedule

Schedule Title

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std Wide Bold

Applies to titles of schedules, including:

• Plant Schedule
• Concept Plant Schedule
• Irrigation Schedules & Reports
• Site schedules such as:
  • RefNotes Schedule
  • Lighting Schedule
  • Zoning Schedule
  • Site Development (Estimator) Schedule
  • Grading Schedule

Zone

Default font in our Preference Set: Graphite Std Wide Bold

Applies to:

• Zoning callouts

• Work Area titles. Unable to create or place a Work Area at all? Solution

You can customize these existing text styles by changing the specifications assigned to each style (such as font and point size). You can also create your own Text Styles.

Viewing and Configuring the Text Styles

We provide two methods of viewing and configuring our Text Styles:

The General Preferences

The General Preferences screen includes a list of all available Text Styles.

If you highlight a Text Style (example: Plant Callout) and click Edit, you'll open a version of the Text Manager that only lists the selected Text Style.

 

 

You can then change the Specifications of the selected style (such as font and point size) on the right side of the Text Manager.

The Text Tool

Our Text tool opens a version of the Text Manager that lists all available Text Styles.

 

 

Select a Text Style to change the Specifications for that style.

 

Default Fonts

When you install a CAD-based program (such as AutoCAD or F/X CAD) on your computer, you also install several TrueType (TTF) fonts. Our database contains a limited number of default fonts, which you can assign to any of the Text Styles.

The easiest way to see a list of all our default fonts is to edit one of the Text Styles and open the Font menu.

 

Use the scroll bar on the right side of the menu to scroll down and see all available fonts.

We've updated our collection of default fonts available with your Land F/X installation, replacing many of the most commonly used SHX fonts with a TrueType (TTF) version.

 

For more information on this update, see our Fonts Update article.

CAD has certain SHX fonts it distributes, which we included in our software prior to the fonts update. Those SHX fonts should still work if they are installed. If you're missing any CAD-provided SHX fonts, here's what to do.

Reload (Update) All Text Styles

Our REAT (Reload All Text Styles) keyboard command updates all text in the current drawing to reflect your Text Style settings in the active Preference Set. Learn more about the REAT command.

We've also added a Text Styles option in our BatchMan batch file processing tool that updates all Text Styles in multiple drawing files to match your default Preference Set.

Related Webinars

• Mastering TrueType Fonts: We'll give you everything you need to make the switch from SXH to far-superior TrueTypes, including tips on sourcing, installation, and troubleshooting. (1 hr 3 min)
• Making Text Work in CAD: Join us to learn the essentials of how to use letters, numbers, and other characters effectively in CAD, including how to work with Text Styles and the Text Manager. (1 hr 4 min)

Troubleshooting

Issue: Text styles not displaying correctly

Issue: Schedule Text or Schedule Title is appearing in the wrong font, point size, etc.

Issue: You need to change or correct the size of existing text in your drawing to match one of your Text Styles

Issue: You want to give your Concept Plant Schedule text its own style or font, separate from the Schedule Text settings

Issue: You want to change the fonts assigned to our Text Styles to use our previous default settings