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Box or rectangle around text characters
- Thread starter PAULBLAIR
- Start date
There are a couple of options:
1. Make your note, then draw a rectangle around the desired text. Problem is that the box doesn't move with the text.
2. Make your note, then create a "Box" style balloon ("Tight Fit" size) containing enough spaces to match the length of the text you want to enclose. Line the balloon up over the portion of the note you want to enclose, select balloon and note, RMB->Group. Now the box and the text move as a unit. If you change the note text you can un-group, move the box, and re-group.
Neither is great, but that's about all I can come up with.
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
1. Make your note, then draw a rectangle around the desired text. Problem is that the box doesn't move with the text.
2. Make your note, then create a "Box" style balloon ("Tight Fit" size) containing enough spaces to match the length of the text you want to enclose. Line the balloon up over the portion of the note you want to enclose, select balloon and note, RMB->Group. Now the box and the text move as a unit. If you change the note text you can un-group, move the box, and re-group.
Neither is great, but that's about all I can come up with.
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
Paul-
Actually there is another way, as was discussed in thread559-219908. Create a balloon, add a border and text, open your annotation, and click on the balloon, it will be added to the note. You can the shrink the original balloon down to 1 pt. and hide it somewhere in your title block. If your text needs to change, go to the original balloon and and edit it.
Sylvia
Actually there is another way, as was discussed in thread559-219908. Create a balloon, add a border and text, open your annotation, and click on the balloon, it will be added to the note. You can the shrink the original balloon down to 1 pt. and hide it somewhere in your title block. If your text needs to change, go to the original balloon and and edit it.
Sylvia
PAULBLAIR,
Curious why you want a box around notes. The only time I see a box is when someone wants to ref a datum. In this case you can insert a datum into a note in SW.
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Jul 13, 2008)
Curious why you want a box around notes. The only time I see a box is when someone wants to ref a datum. In this case you can insert a datum into a note in SW.
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Jul 13, 2008)
mncad
Industrial
- Dec 27, 2002
- 256
Why not do a note with the border of box around it, type the info you want, then start another note without the border and finish the note (to move them together just window select both notes. If the bordered text is in the middle of the note, just leave leave spaces between the words where the bordered text goes.
mncad
mncad
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