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KevinBradberry1-Visitor
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April 4, 2012
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Tips for text

  • April 4, 2012
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Here's an open discussion for text and notes in Creo and Pro-engineer.

Add tips and tricks that you know and ask questions that would be a good addition to this topic.

If you know of any previous threads that will compliment this topic please provide us the link.

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    ptc-51565811-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    June 21, 2013

    Dear all,

    Sorry for push up the topic but i have a similar question on this subject.

    I try to find a way for create balloon in a text with using parametric like GD&T.

    I find nothing how to do that without use balloon and use related to object.


    Any idea ?

    Thanks

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    BrianMartin13-Aquamarine
    13-Aquamarine
    June 24, 2013

    Hi Sebastien...

    Can you draw us a simple image of what you're trying to to. I'm not quite sure from your initial message.

    Thanks...

    -Brian

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    ptc-51565811-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    June 25, 2013

    Hi Brian,

    I want to get something like that.

    Capture.PNG

    Balloon inside a note !

    Seb

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      JWayman1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      July 11, 2013

      Hello,

      I made a note and saved it for future use. The note looked something like this:

      note.jpg

      All well and good. However, when I inserted a note from file and selected the note I had saved, this is what came in:

      note 2.jpg

      Spot the difference?

      The word 'NOTES' is no longer underlined. How can this be?

      Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

      Whilst on the subject, I know how to split up notes using {1:xxxx}{2:yyyy}, etc. so different bits can be formatted differently. However, if I format one of the text segments as Centre Justified, they all change. Likewise if I make just one Left Justified. Is it not possible to have different justifications in a single note?

      Thanks,

      John

      WF4, M220

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      ptc-50080821-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      July 11, 2013

      No idea about the underline, it just falls off!

      For the justification though, if you look at the text style box it is split into 'character' and 'note/dimension'

      Stuff in the character area can be applied to individual portions of the note, whereas stuff in the note/dimension area is applied to the whole note - or at least that is my understanding of it (doesn't help you)

      Justifications can be applied to individual cells in a table but not lines in a note

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      JWayman1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      July 11, 2013

      Thanks, Charlotte,

      I think I twigged where the underline goes: It is saved as a .TXT file, which is associated with Notepad, and does not support formatting such as underline. I don't know whether using Wordpad might help. I'll have a play one day when I have time.

      As far as the Justification goes, shame. It would be good to be able to create notes with varying justification, although the comments above regarding Notepad would probably apply equally.

      Ah! Well, never mind...

      John

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      ptc-50127101-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      March 26, 2014

      Creo2 drawing notes image:

      CREO2-image.JPG

      Notepad notes image:

      Notepad-image.JPG

      Hello Team,

      Am just trying to fix the alignment problem with in Annotation->Note

      Why two lines are not getting aligned in creo 2 like how in Notepad.

      Your ideas will be really helpful.

      Dale_Rosema
      23-Emerald III
      Dale_Rosema23-Emerald III
      23-Emerald III
      March 26, 2014

      Naveen,

      Welcome to the forum. PTC is in the process of creating an editor where "What you see is what you get" per this product suggestion. I am not sure if this is available yet, or if it is going to be in Creo 3.0

      Thanks, Dale

      http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/2059#comment-7802

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        Gaurav-Kumar1-Visitor
        1-Visitor
        May 21, 2014

        hello...

        how to increase the gap in between underline and the text.......mine is coming too close......

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        TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
        17-Peridot
        May 21, 2014

        Welcome to the forum Sujit.

        I suspect this is built into the font. You can try and see if the true type fonts are better than the native fonts.

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          Gaurav-Kumar1-Visitor
          1-Visitor
          June 9, 2014

          Thanx

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          LawrenceS18-Opal
          18-Opal
          July 9, 2014

          Is there a way to have a true type font be still be able to adjust the font thickness and the width factor?

          For some reason these text options on the dwg only work if it is NOT a true type font.

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          TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
          17-Peridot
          July 9, 2014

          true type fonts don't work that way. Thickness, which is only assigned to the screen, is based on "curves" and TT fonts don't have those. Same as width (aspect ratio)... TT fonts have this built into their definition so it cannot do that either.

          What PTC really needs to do is gray out those cells when a TT font is specified to there would be no question rather than have one assume these values are set.

          Let's see what the new Creo 3.0 overhaul of annotation has to offer.

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          LawrenceS18-Opal
          18-Opal
          July 11, 2014

          If TTFs don't work that way, then how can it be done in any other application such as MS Office,etc (even this website can do it!).

          Rather than graying out the features shouldn't PTC just figure out how to utilize whatever is built into the ttf definition, like every other program in the world seems able to do? If all these other programs can do it, it seems like it should not be that complicated for Creo to do likewise. I don't particularly care if the exact thickness/boldness of text can be controlled, but having the ability to bold it at all is required to help separate heading from body text.

          It would be really nice if this is one of the issues that PTC addressed in Creo3

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          Dancaw1-Visitor
          1-Visitor
          September 19, 2014

          Hello,

          I am inserting a symbol into a drawing. This is a significant symbol (pentagon) with a number inside of it to be used for quality purposes. I would like to know a way to insert the symbol on a certain layer so I can show and hide it, also to have each instance increase by one number sequentially.

          What is the best way to accomplis this?

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          LawrenceS18-Opal
          18-Opal
          September 19, 2014

          Dan,

          That sounds like a good use of layers.

          If you already have the layer you want the symbol(s) on, you can right click on it and select Activate before you add the symbols. That way whatever you create while it is activated will go on that layer. Then deactivate when done.

          If you already added the symbols to the dwg, then just open that layer properties and add them manually. If it is the only symbol you could probably use the find/search tool to add them all at once or use the filter selection tool to grab many at once.

          Make sure to write back and let use know how it works for you.

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          ptc-50251011-Visitor
          1-Visitor
          October 23, 2014

          Hi,

          Please suggest me what is the syntax for overriding added dimension with parametric dimension.

          Ex: Added dimension is 45 degrees, i want to replace this with driven dimension 60 degrees.

          Thanks in advance

          Sudarshan

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          LawrenceS18-Opal
          18-Opal
          October 23, 2014

          Although this is frequently used for notes, this sounds like a dangerous thing to want to do for dimensions. Could you explain why not just correctly display the dimension in the model? Is it a matter of orientation?

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          TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
          17-Peridot
          October 23, 2014

          There really is nothing worse than overwriting dimensions for the sake of saving a little time. There are only very few instances when this is sanctioned in general, one of which is table dimensions and the other is broken views.

          You cannot change the properties of a dimension to simply overwrite the value with a parameter in the model (driving dimensions). But you can change the name of the dimension and and have it show this in the dimension. You can then add a parameter.

          Obviously the panel cannot be 1.75 inches wide and the slot be wider at 2 inches. param_or is set to 2.0 in relations; inches is the name of the dimension in properties.

          param_over-ride.PNG

          However, if you have a driven (drawing) dimension, you can use the @O&param_or to overwrite the dimension on the drawing.

          Please don't do this unless you have a very good reason!

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            acoates1-Visitor
            1-Visitor
            February 18, 2015

            Excellent thread, it has proven very useful to me, thank you.

            A quick question, if I may: is there a way to force a parameter display to uppercase? The default for the Appearance "Name" field is lowercase, no matter how it is entered.

            Many thanks,

            Andy

            Dale_Rosema
            23-Emerald III
            Dale_Rosema23-Emerald III
            23-Emerald III
            September 10, 2015

            Just remembered this thread. Great read if you need some tweaks with text.

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