Justifying Text after Mirroring a Plan

Hello All,
Our company frequently does opposite hands (mirror images across the
y-axis) of our plans and I'm trying to create a script to automate it. The
problem occurs when mirroring a group of "DTEXT" objects. We use "DTEXT" to
create our text objects and have several scripts already written using this
so completely switching to "MTEXT" is not an option. In the original plan,
the objects are left-justified (according to the "DTEXT" properties) and the
insertion points and the left-hand points of the bounding box all have the
same x-coordinate. After mirroring the objects, they are still
left-justified according to the "DTEXT" properties, but the left-hand points
of the bounding box no longer line up. Now the right-hand points of the
bounding box have the same x-coordinate.

EXAMPLE:
Before:
BH-55
W8X18 STL. BM.

After Mirroring:
BH-55
W8X18 STL. BM.

One solution I've come up with is to convert a group of "DTEXT" objects
to a single "MTEXT" object, mirror it, change the justification, then
explode it back to "DTEXT" objects. This works well but I'm trying to get
away from having to select each and every object or group of objects. My
plan for the script file is to do a selection set of all "DTEXT" objects,
then create sub-sets of objects that have the same x-coordinate for the
insertion points and the left-hand points of the bounding box. Then I could
convert only those objects to a single "MTEXT" object, mirror it, change the
justification, and explode it back to multiple "DTEXT" objects. Does this
make sense or is there a simpler way to accomplish this? Also, what is the
best way to create the subsets? Should I use an array? I was thinking of
using one with the number of columns being the number of unique groups of
"DTEXT" objects and the number of rows being the number of lines of text in
the group... Make sense? Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance!
Ben Hoffmann
Scholz Design, Inc.

 

Interesting approach. I would do it like this:
Get all the Dtext objects (list 1)
Pull out text - line at a time, (list 2)
Pull the insertion points (list 3)
Delete all the old stuff (selection set in 1)
Insert new Dtext, strings, at IP's
Save

 

I doubt that you're going to be able to automate this, but good luck in
trying. I differ with the other response. I'd convert all the blocks of
aligned text to mtext first (maybe using txt2mtxt), so you're dealing with
fewer things, and because mtext makes things easier anyway. Then mirror the
whole sheet, then remirror the mtext blocks, then explode them back to text
if you must.