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Autocad Mechanical 2013 Power Dim Text


harley558

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I am power dimensioning items on a drawing. With these dimensions I need to add other text and I would like for all the text to be together but on seperate lines. Would be at least 3 lines of text. How do I acheive this. Most I can do is 2 and that is using line break. Surely there is another way of creating numerous lines of text on a dimension.

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It can be done no problem to your standard rotated dimension in Autocad Vanilla 2013.

Are you double clicking on the text to expand the TEXT FORMATTING dialog box? I should imagine you could do it that way, seems weird if you can't.

no problem using 2013 vanilla.jpg

multiline dim text in 2013.JPG

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  • 3 months later...

yes, there is a way. Use the command OPTIONS. When the dialog box appears, go to the AM:Standards tab.

 

from there double click "Dimensions" in the elements box to the right.

 

click the "predefined text..." button.

 

click into the box on the left. from here you can hit enter and add a letter. mine is M. (see attached). hit add. then ok. apply the changes and hit ok.

 

lay your power dimension. When the text highlights to edit, click the Predefined pulldown button on you ribbon. It should be the first one.

 

choose your added style, if used my predefined style it will be:

M

M

 

Then edit the lines accordingly.

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1.jpg

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