If you use True Type text then you have probably seen this issue below

Sometimes a simple Z elevation fix will remove the dreaded fat text. Although ever so occasionally this will not suffice.

If you have fixed the z elevation and it still isn’t working it is usually due to the view center been out. To check, enter your viewport and type “VIEW”

If its wrong then it will probably look like so, (camera X and Camera Y display large values that should be 0)

To fix in the current drawing is quite simple

1. Select the little plus button in the top left corner of your viewport and select “Steering Wheels”

2. Right click and select “Restore Original Center”

3. It will zoom out your viewport, but zoom in and look at that fine dainty text!

4. While your at it, type “VIEW” again whilst in the viewport

Camera X and Y are 0 and we only get Camera Z. Which is how high the eye altitude is

Saying all this we can avoid all this hassle by making a simple change to our templates!

When a viewport is created it will take the settings from the last viewport that was created in that drawing. So if we add a viewport to all our templates in layout space with the fix already applied as shown above. All the viewports we create from here on out won’t have this problem!

To check

1. Open your Blank Template and create a viewport and check camera X Y Z etc.

2. AHHHHHH!!

3. Apply the fix to first viewport.

4. Create another viewport and check camera

Viewport is perfect!!