
I've often seen the question, over the years, of how to draw text in the plane of the screen, even when the current view is not planar to the current UCS. This ability to "screen fix" text has been there, but has required a number of sometimes tricky transformations to get the right behaviour. Well, during a recent internal discussion I became aware of a really handy facility inside AutoCAD which allows you to dependably draw screen-fixed text without jumping through hoops. In this simple example, we're implementing a DrawJig - a jig that doesn't host an entity but... Read more →