topic Re: Text Border on Leader Text in Inventor Programming Forum

Text Border on Leader Text

imajar — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:42:47 GMT

Good Morning,

I cannot figure out how to add the text border on a leader text with iLogic. Is that feature accessible with iLogic?

Inv 2018

Thanks,

Re: Text Border on Leader Text

JamieVJohnson2 — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:50:37 GMT

Textbox with Border option is only available to a text entity created within a sketch. LeaderNote text although uses the same editor, has that feature disabled (aka not present). The same is for textboxes added directly to a sheet (no border option).

Re: Text Border on Leader Text

imajar — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:09:02 GMT

Hmmm. . . OK. Maybe another route: Since I can enable the text boundary on leader text via GUI - can iLogic simulate mouse clicks within the inventor GUI?

Re: Text Border on Leader Text

JamieVJohnson2 — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:17:09 GMT

In Inventor 2019, I can not use GIU to enable a leader text box's border. Can you screencast record how you do that? Perhaps I can find the 'object' in question.

Re: Text Border on Leader Text

imajar — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:53:57 GMT

I shared a screencast with you - did you get it? (this is my first time doing a screencast 🙂 )

Re: Text Border on Leader Text

JamieVJohnson2 — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:44:08 GMT

I love to be proven wrong, it teaches me new things. Ok so the button I was looking for is greyed out, and the method you are using is completely different. Tomorrow when I'm back in the office, I will create this object, and break down the item in .Net to find if this is a text format option or what.

Thanks,

Re: Text Border on Leader Text

imajar — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:14:47 GMT

Sounds Good. Thanks. I think this is a fairly recent enhancement - I cant remember seeing or using it before 2018. . .

Re: Text Border on Leader Text

JamieVJohnson2 — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:27:03 GMT

Well its not in the Formatted Text, its not in the Dimension Style, its not a hidden Attribute value. Its not a special Background Color (similar to how if you set a certain date, the program assumes 'unchecked'). Not fully exhausting the search, it could be an associated entity. More likely since it is a new feature, its a missing property reference in the API. Can an Autodesk employee confirm this?

Re: Text Border on Leader Text

robertast — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:36:23 GMT

Who cares about it - let's vote for this idea 👍 👍👍

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/text-border-functionality-api-support/idi-p/9707489

Re: Text Border on Leader Text

JBerns — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:04:08 GMT

Inventor 2023 added the ShowBorder property (boolean) to Get/Set the text border.

leaderNote.ShowTextBorder = True

Re: Text Border on Leader Text

robertast — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:09:24 GMT

@JBerns Yes, everyone already knows about it and uses it, whoever reads the help 😉 Or even in the idea forum where that idea is marked as done. Thanks to the Autodesk team. 👌