I have a 3D part properties that is pretty long in character. I'd like to be able to wrap the text (make it appear on 2 lignes) on the 2D drawing. Is there any way Or I have to split it manually? -- Robin Mech eng SW2004+ SP1 AMD 1333 1024 ram Spaceball 4000FLX Hacked GeForce 3 to Quadro DCC
There isn't any automatic way in the old Excel BOM. You can manually widen that line and manually put in a line feed character, but when thing change, you have to manually do it again. Too uncertain for me to consider it a good idea. WT
My problem is not in the BOM where I can stretch the width of column but in the cartrides where I don't want to stretch the space for the description of the part. -- Robin Mech eng SW2004+ SP1 AMD 1333 1024 ram Spaceball 4000FLX Hacked GeForce 3 to Quadro DCC
I remedied this with a macro that fills in the Custom props. Say that my part description was Some Bracket - Some Weldment In the BOM I only wanted to show Some Bracket but in the Drawing Name I wanted to show Some Bracket Some Weldment I used the macro to set 2 custom prop fields "Description" & "Description2" "Description" fills in the BOM and "Description2" fills in the Title block This way I type into the form on my macro Some Bracket(ENTER) Some Weldment then the macro sets both of them accordingly by searching for the (Enter character) In other words there is no wrapping in SW you have to add an enter somehow. A function for creating a "wrapped after somany characters string" wouldn't be very dificult. Corey Scheich
This is what I feared, that wrap option would be nice (acad has it). Thanks -- Robin Mech eng SW2004+ SP1 AMD 1333 1024 ram Spaceball 4000FLX Hacked GeForce 3 to Quadro DCC
Hum, does not work for me here, I don't see the square box but just a smaller space which does nothing when pasted. -- Robin Mech eng SW2004 SP1 AMD 1333 1024 ram Spaceball 4000FLX Hacked GeForce 3 to Quadro DCC =---
I got it! But I have to do a design table to force the wrap character to show. Is there any ascii code to get it faster? I like that but I would prefer to be able to get it within SW.. -- Robin Mech eng SW2004 SP1 AMD 1333 1024 ram Spaceball 4000FLX Hacked GeForce 3 to Quadro DCC
I don't know if this exactly what you are looking for, but I put a macro on my website today which lets you specify the width of the selected annotations; these annotations will then be "word wrap enable" (as I call it), which is not possible from the GUI of SolidWorks. The only blowback is that the annotation will loose the "use standard font" setting. If you want to give it a try go to my macro page at http://swtools.cad.de/macros.htm and take a look at the macro called mm_28.zip Any feedback is welcome. HTH, Stefan -- unofficial german SolidWorks helpsite http://solidworks.cad.de tools and programs for SolidWorks http://swtools.cad.de
