topic Re: Text box multiline in Inventor Forum

Text box multiline

jean-francois.morin-verville — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:41:33 GMT

Hello,

Before upgrading to Inventor Pro 2023, i was able to create a sketch symbol with text and when activating the ''Text Box'' icon, the text stayed in that box without going over the establish border and creating a multi-line text that would react to the borders being manipulated.

I dont know why but now, when creating the border and activating the ''Text Box'' icon, in the ''Format text window'', (see attach pic) the text conforms to the previously establish border but when i press ''Ok'' at the bottom, the text goes over the border in a single line text (single line text icon is not activated!).

(For the example below, i held down the ''a'' and the text conformed to the border previously establish by ''creating'' other lines.)

What i'm i missing here?

Thank you.

Re: Text box multiline

johnsonshiue — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 23:51:35 GMT

Hi! I could be wrong but I think you are talking about Inventor Drawing Text or AutoCAD MTEXT, not Sketch Text. The text command used in the Sketch Symbol workflow is Sketch Text, not Drawing Text. Its behavior has been consistent.

Many thanks!

Re: Text box multiline

jean-francois.morin-verville — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:35:50 GMT

hello,

I dont know what is the name of that kind of text but i have maybe 20 of those ''sketch symbols'' that i can insert on a .idw and some of them have the text that conforms to the ''text box'' and others just wont. Is there a check box or something that i dont see...

thank you.

Re: Text box multiline

johnsonshiue — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:07:16 GMT

Hi Jean-Francois,

Please share the idw file here or send it to me directly johnson.shiue@autodesk.com. I would like to understand the behavior better.

Many thanks!

Re: Text box multiline

SBix26 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:50:36 GMT

In Inventor 2023.4 I'm able to control line length by dimensioning the text box. Text box can be set by right clicking on the sketch text (while editing the sketch) and selecting Text Box, or by editing the text itself and choosing the Text Box button in the Edit dialog.

There are no line feeds in this text, it just wraps from one line to the next as text is added.

I think you already know this, though, so I recommend to follow @johnsonshiue 's advice and attach your file here.

Sam B

Inventor Pro 2024.1.1 | Windows 10 Home 22H2

Re: Text box multiline

jean-francois.morin-verville — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:13:37 GMT

Hello,

Yes, i already know this and that is what i'm trying to understand; why is it working on some of my sketch symbol and not on others!

I tried to modified old ones, a few still conforms to the text box and some dont. When i create new ones, they just dont.

I cant share the file because it belongs to the corporation i work for but, i'll see if i can recreate this problem in an empty template...

Thank you