Extruding Text onto a Surface

In Wildfire 2.0

When you go to extrude text onto any surface. in the dialog box it only
allows for
one line of text. is there any special set of characters i can add onto the
end of this line to
allow it to add a second line of text, without having to enter a new second
text line?

thank you all!


LouR

 

Save the thanks, there isn't much to be happy about when it comes to Pro/e's text
handling, formatting capabilities: you can't even set a margin for a note or wrap
text anywhere, since they're everywhere using a decrepit, ASCII line editor from
the 70s which was dead dumb, even for the 70s). Needless to say, they've missed
the last 20 years of the GUI computer revolution, on the front of text and text
handling (a legacy of the UNIX community's shunning of that technology until
MSGATES was chomping hard on their pure little fannies. You GO Bill, Chomp
Harder!!). Well, Pro/e was 'plain vanilla' before it was plain or vanilla, and
they stuck with it through 20 years of the latest computer revolution.

Well, I mistakenly thought that the solution of your problem might lie in an
annotation feature. Ummm, no, this is just a dressed up 'Edit>Setup>Note' which is
non-geometry (i.e., it cannot interface with a geometry modifying process like a
text extrusion.

I was also wondering why the special text stuff inside of extrude: why can't you
just create a note, for example ~ multiline, formatted the way you want, text
style set ~ and turn this into a solid or a cut. Why all the Pro/GOOFY monkeying
around!?!

Anyway, I got as far as an Annotation Feature and creating a Note within it and
creating Note parameter. But none of the notes appeared and the Note parameter
would accept no value besides zero. So, I totally bombed!!!! Maybe some trick
config option in config.pro is the key to it all, who knows.

David Janes

 

thank you David for your time and help.

LouR