Dimension text above and below dim line

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by Walt Engle, Oct 26, 2004.

  1. Walt Engle

    Walt Engle Guest

    I have seen it posted once, but cannot find the answer. Does anybody
    know how to edit mtext so that there would be one line of text above the
    dim line and another line of text below?
    TIA
     
    Walt Engle, Oct 26, 2004
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  2. Walt Engle

    C Witt Guest

    TEXT\XTEXT

    The key is the "\x"
     
    C Witt, Oct 26, 2004
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  3. Walt Engle

    David Kozina Guest

    (BTW, X must be capitalized, as in the first example)
     
    David Kozina, Oct 26, 2004
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  4. Walt Engle

    Walt Engle Guest

    Many thanks - thought I could remember it, but getting old.
     
    Walt Engle, Oct 26, 2004
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  5. Walt Engle

    Walt Engle Guest

    Many thanks
     
    Walt Engle, Oct 26, 2004
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  6. Walt Engle

    Tom Smith Guest

    Walt, the only caveat is, you can't move the dim text anywhere away from the
    default position when you do this, or it breaks the dimension line.
     
    Tom Smith, Oct 27, 2004
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  7. Walt Engle

    David Kozina Guest

    You can use DIMTEDIT Left/Center/Right options for a limited set of
    positions.
    Wish there was more flexibility, though.
     
    David Kozina, Oct 27, 2004
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  8. Walt Engle

    Tom Smith Guest

    Thanks, David! At least the left and right options give us two more
    possibilities besides home.
     
    Tom Smith, Oct 27, 2004
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  9. Walt Engle

    Walt Engle Guest

    And I wish it would work (above/below) on leaders, such as diameter or radii.
    Oh for R12.
     
    Walt Engle, Oct 27, 2004
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  10. I wish you could move it, without it popping above the line. Must be too hard for AutoCAD to fix!!
     
    MarcelGosselin, Oct 29, 2004
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  11. Walt Engle

    David Kozina Guest

    First, I don't use AutoCAD's built-in mtext editor.
    I hear it's much much improved over the R14 version, (I would hope so).
    Still, I'll continue to use TextPad, thank you.

    At any rate, I say this because I don't know if that might be (part of) the
    problem.
    But maybe not.

    Another possibility - are you trying to edit the text INSIDE the properties
    box on the Contents line?
    If so, I'm wondering if you need two backslashes (ie \\P rather than \P) for
    the paragraph returns?

    Seems like this causes some difficulties with respects to the FIND command
    as well. It has difficulties with finding dimension text override strings
    after a \X or \P modifier (and you can unwittingly mangle them (by losing
    the subsequent text), if you're not careful).
    IOW, WE type \X or \P - but AutoCAD automatically converts these modifiers
    to be \\X or \\P.

    But I don't know if any of the above relates to the particular difficulties
    you mention.

    Best regards,
    David Kozina


    jpg's showing editting of Mtext and editting of Dimension Mtext.
    text and add, no problem. But if I try to type it all on one line (as it is
    shown in the property box), it don't work as shown in the dimension
    example???
     
    David Kozina, Oct 30, 2004
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  12. Walt Engle

    teiarch Guest

    To All Participents In This Post:

    There's a similar question and slightly different responses I just looked at on CADCHAT.COM.

    Might clear up some dangling issues if you care to look.....
     
    teiarch, Nov 1, 2004
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