Force a line break in a text box

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by John H, May 2, 2006.

  1. John H

    John H Guest

    I'm trying to take advantage of the new Note functionality in 2006 (at
    least, it wasn't in 2004) that lets you define a text box. I wish to
    populate a text box in a drawing with (for example) the "material" custom
    property referenced from the part, which will need to wrap over more than
    one line.
    This works fine so far.

    However, I'd like to be able to force the line breaks to make it read like
    :-
    3 THICK MILD STEEL SHEET
    BS1449 CR4GP

    Is there a way of inserting a control character in the custom property that
    will force a line break after the word "SHEET"?
    Otherwise I end up with :-
    3 THICK MILD STEEL SHEET BS1449
    CR4GP

    Obviously, in this specific instance, I could change the size of the text
    box to change the wrapping point, but I want this to work in general.

    Regards,
    John H
     
    John H, May 2, 2006
    #1
  2. John H

    Dave Adams Guest

    John:

    How about creating two custom properties Material1 and Material2?
    In your Custom Properties box you can set the value of Material to:
    $PRP:"Material1"$PRP:"Material2"

    In the drawing you can set the text box to display:

    $PRPSHEET:"Material1"
    $PRPSHEET:"Material2"

    We're doing the same thing to force the "Description" property to show
    up as two lines in the Title Block (i.e. "Title1" and Title2").

    Regards,
    -Dave Adams-
     
    Dave Adams, May 2, 2006
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  3. John H

    John H Guest

    It's a thought, Dave, but it seems a shame to have to do this.
    Also, if a user enters more characters for "material 1" than will fit on
    line one, won't it either wrap the text onto a second line, or not display
    all of it?

    Can you make a property a fixed field length?

    Regards,
    John H
     
    John H, May 3, 2006
    #3
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