Formatted Text

[DuncanAnderson]

The text dialogue box in an IDW/DWG has had one update that I’m aware of.

It can barely be called a ‘Formatted Text’ dialogue box with just; bold, italics, underline as well as vertical and horizontal alignment.

At the moment the only useful thing is does is, link to iProperties. It doesn’t do this very well if there is more than one part/component in a drawing.

Again I’m going to suggest looking at the AutoCAD Multi-Line Text dialogue box, which has some practical options for draughts-people (drafts-people).

I’m also going to suggest that developers concentrate on getting the linkage to iProperties and ‘Engineers Notes’ nailed down.

As well as enable some form of embedding so that users can embed an office application – we shouldn’t be tied down to just MS – so that, for example, we could OLE a Word document from the ‘product specification documentation’ into a drawing. When the user clicks on the text Word activates and the text can be edited through Word’s interface. When the text isn’t active the Word border isn’t visible. Naturally, if text is OLE’d into a drawing it should only be edited through.

At present there is far more options for formatting text in this forum than in an Inventor drawing

[Bplugem]

This is just like the "Update Inventor Drawing Text Editor" request:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-IdeaStation/Update-Inventor-Drawing-Text-Editor/idi-p/3685260

[DuncanAnderson]

Thanks Bplugem, I did a quick search and had found nothing.

It is worthwhile noting that it is possible to OLE a Word document into a IDW/DWG and make it visible. Therefore it become possible to use Word as the formatted text editor.

[DuncanAnderson]

A bit of useful information.

MS now produce readers/viewers for all their office applications.

These are freely available.

Therefore, users would not be tied down to using MS Office, Inventor could install these readers/viewers, which would give Inventor access to the various components needed.

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