Dim lines

[mpary]

Hi, 

How do I make the one on the left look like the one on the right? With the dim line still visible between the lines of text. Matching properties created a huge wipeout "stripe" in the drawing. 

Thanks. 

[Kent1Cooper]

With the "Text position vertical" set to "Above," get into editing the text content, back it up to one line with the measured value followed immediately by what you want under the dimension line:

and type into that spot between the two:

\X

[it must be a capital X].

Click out in open space to complete:

It requires the text-above setting, not the text-centered-vertically setting, which even with the \X coding gives you a gap in the dimension line.

[whitney_jeff]

It looks to me as if your dim on the right has the "text above" enabled, and then the dim text was edited to add the second line of text

[Kent1Cooper]

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@whitney_jeff wrote:

... your dim on the right has the "text above" enabled, and then the dim text was edited to add the second line of text

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If that's all you do [edit the text content and hit Enter to get a second line], this is what you get:

That has a \P in the stored text string for the Enter.  The \X approach in my previous answer is what gives you the straddling-the-line form instead.

[whitney_jeff]

Thanks Kent, for clearing that up

Jeff