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Is there a way to stop dimension line from breaking automatically?

sehyun0701 — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 06:26:15 GMT

Hola

Simple question : Is there a way to keep the dimension line between the texts from breaking?

am using lt for mac

there prbbly is already someone who asked..but cannot find it!

Re: Is there a way to stop dimension line from breaking automatically?

pendean — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 12:14:57 GMT

DIMTAD system variable is explained in HELP, you want ABOVE not "centered".

More from HELP https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-for-mac/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/AutoCAD-MAC-Core/files/GUID-863065EC-12D5-4F65-8E6F-2BE140CA68DF-htm.html

HTH

Re: Is there a way to stop dimension line from breaking automatically?

maxim_k — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 12:47:39 GMT

Hi @sehyun0701 ,

If you already set dimension text Vertical position to "Above" (DIMTAD=1), you can use special control code to add second line to dimension text - \X (backslash+uppercase X):

<default dim text>\X

The text should look like:

Re: Is there a way to stop dimension line from breaking automatically?

sehyun0701 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:20:58 GMT

\X is exactly what i needed thank you once again maxim!
didn't even know this control code thing even existed. i should check out if there are more of these codes. thank you!!

Re: Is there a way to stop dimension line from breaking automatically?

maxim_k — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 06:55:07 GMT

@sehyun0701 wrote:
..... i should check out if there are more of these codes. thank you!!

Hi Sehyun,

You can look here:

https://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2017/09/dissecting-mtext-format-codes.html