lfe011969 Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Is there anyway to add a carriage return to a custom drawing property or to the Drawing Title field within AutoCAD? We use the Drawing Title drawing property for our drawing titles as a field in our title blocks. I have the field stretched out to fill the whole area where our titles go and this works fine for most. A few project leads would like the ability to break the title so the text is more uniform. This is a sample title using a field. The first line of the title spreads out completely until there is no more room for text which then throws the last word of the title onto a separate line. This is how some project leads have requested our titles to be shown. Unfortunately the only way I've been able to do this is to manually move the grips in for the MTEXT until the words break as needed. The unicode code for a carriage return (U+000D) does not work. Neither does adding \n. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Add another line for the title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfe011969 Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 rkent, Adding another line doesn't solve my problem as the title is stored in a field within a piece of MTEXT. See picture below. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie8974 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Did you try the enter key when you want to start a new line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Having been used to give the drawing a name, does the Field have to stay as a Field? If not, you could convert the Field to Text for those few drawings where more formatting is required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Move over to the Custom Tab and either add two lines for the title or add one line for overflow. Or use the Subject line for the overflow and add that field to the title block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfe011969 Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 Thanks for the suggestions. I was hoping there was some way of just using the Title field but I guess there isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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