Justify Chamfer Text

[chris29]

Is ther a way to change the justification of the text for a Chamfer Note?

I've tried changing the style, tried editing the text.  neither worked.

As you can see in the jpeg, justification needs to be flipped.

[lesmfunk]

I noticed that your leader landing is missing. If I adjust the leader landing length, the justification remains on the same side as when the landing was last adjusted. Inorder to justify to the other side, I have to drag the landing to that side.

[Davarn-ToolGuy]

The chamfer command does not allow multi segment leader lines unlike the actual Leader command.

The successful chamfer message is actually a Leader command that I manually typed the chamfer message into.

This might be a good suggestion for the Idea Station.

David Arnold
Designer-New Dies
Motor City Stamping Inc.

[lesmfunk]

Yes, a good one for the Idea Station.

I have used [the leader] method in the past and one time it was a $2000 mistake. The leader does not update to a change in the source geometry.

Sometimes I remove the "Chamfer" word from the note to save space on busy drawings. Everyone knows what .06 x 45° means. If they don't, they will ask.

Also, I change the style to read UPPERCASE as in David's leader. Don't know why the default isn't UPPERCASE.

[Davarn-ToolGuy]

That is a good point, but just to clarify, I presented the Leader command to demonstrate the difference between commands, but I should have pointed out the main (and costly) downside in using it.

The recomendation to use the Idea Station is the Ideal solution.

[SBix26]

By all means, add the IdeaStation post (and include all Feature Notes in the request: Hole/Thread, Chamfer, Punch, Bend).  I will support it and I'm sure many others will, too.  There might already be one there, in which case a duplicate isn't necessary.  Be sure to post a link in this thread to your new idea, or to an existing one that you find.

A workaround to avoid the costly errors, though, is to use part parameters in your Leader Text.  It's tedious to find them in a busy part, but should at least avoid mistakes that have big time and money implications:

Sam B

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[Cadmanto · Accepted solution]

I am not seeing where this got addressed in the idea station, so I created the idea here.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/justification-for-chamfer-notes/idi-p/8141507

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