Where are the text commands?

[kshea9RNL8]

Hard for me to believe I have to ask for help to find the text commands but...............

Using "S" > Text and selected Text Command's

All this brings up is a full width partial window with a heading of "Text Command's" no commands anywhere.

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Text command does only exist in sketch mode!

günther

[jbarchuk]

The one reply didn't answer the Q, which was the 'TEXT COMMANDS' box at the bottom of the screen under the timeline. If it's not visible, on PC ctrl-alt-c should make it appear. Also found under File - View.

My issue is that I have the box but don't know the magic key to enter text there.  Left click does nothing. Keystrokes return regular hotkey actions. Right-click gives me clear, copy, select all, not even a paste. I don't have a list of all keyboard commands so looking for that now.

[jhackney1972]

You are not quite down low enough.  The video will show you what you are missing.

[jbarchuk]

When you said not quite low enough I knew what happened, that there should be more stuff. I *thought* I had screen in full screen mode, but apparently not. When I did I still had to wrangle windows to get anything to happen. Probably years ago I glanced at the ctrl-alt-[letter] hotkeys to turn things on and off, but I *NEVER* used them because I've been using windows hotkeys for 30 years (c = cygwin) and wasn't about to change. I use Timeline very often so I would never be in the habit of turning that on/off anyway The rest of the text commands window was down there, fully opened, but Too Big for my screen! I got screencaps to show those but doesn't matter. Then I gave up and found out how to ctrl-r to reset everything. With that, there's the text entry box. Thanks much!

To answer the original Q, '?' returns a list of available commands, and 'command /?' returns more info.

The specific command that helped me is sketch.showunderconstrained. Perfect.