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Dawing label - text wrapping not working?


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I am often ending up with long drawing labels that look like this:

 

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But want them to look more like this (more convenient for laying out sheets where space is short):

 

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So, I go into "edit drawing label layout" and I set up the title text box like this:

 

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And I tick "wrap text", for that text box within the label layout.

 

But when I go back the the label itself, that text isn't wrapping - it still looks like this

 

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Regardless of whether I set "label length mode" to "control point" or "fixed" or "auto fit". If I use "control point" it'll give me the blue square control point but it won't let me move it to the left at all, to force the text into two lines.

 

Is this not working or is it that I'm misunderstanding what "wrap text" means in that instance?

 

 

An alternative solution to this would be to give the label two fields in place of that one - "title" and "subtitle" or something like that. So that I can type into the OIP the title and then my subtitle (in this case it would be "as existing"). Is that possible?

 

 

 

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For what it's worth, my workaround for this has been to make duplicates of my standard drawing label style. One includes "existing" as static text, one includes "proposed" as static text and one is just a regular one with no static text. This gives me three styles, and they'll give these three variants using the same input data:

 

 

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I can switch between them by replacing the drawing label style.

 

I think it would be useful for the drawing label object to have the option for a couple of user-defined parameters. In this case, it would be really handy to have a dropdown in the OIP where I can switch between these three modes, especially if it was accessible from the viewport OIP (as is currently the case with the drawing title and number). This would save having to go into the annotations space, then select the drawing label, then replace the style.

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