Secret text tricks in drawings

Secret text tricks in drawings

aleksei_ovsienko
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Secret text tricks in drawings

aleksei_ovsienko
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So by a lot of googling and trying things I have noticed there are certain things you can do in drawings by typing things into dimensions and annotations. All CADs probably had them since times immemorial. 
I remember how you could get AutoCAD to underscore text by putting "%%U" before the text. 

 

In Fusion I found two tricks like that. 
1. "\X"  typed in the dimension will make the following text  drop under the line like so (doesn't work for annotations though, only for dimensions):

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2. G5(-0.006^-0.014) - will do this fo you:

aleksei_ovsienko_3-1751026964279.png


My question is - does anyone know more of these tricks? I even tried asking support in the app. They didn't know. But most likely people who used Fusion for a long time would know. For some reason these really useful things are not documented anywhere.

 

 

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liang_chen
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Thanks for sharing the feedback. It is an interesting topic. AFAIK, there could not be a formal list for the tricks of each CAD.

It could be an improvement for Fusion if there are many tricks work in other applications, but not in Fusion. Let me subscribe this post. 



Fred Chen
SQA Engineer
Quality Assurance Team
Autodesk, Inc.