In Wildfire 2.0
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> When you go to extrude text onto any surface. in the dialog box it only > allows for
> one line of text. is there any special set of characters i can add onto the
> end of this line to
> allow it to add a second line of text, without having to enter a new second > text line?
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> thank you all!
Save the thanks, there isn't much to be happy about when it comes to Pro/e's text handling, formatting capabilities: you can't even set a margin for a note or wrap text anywhere, since they're everywhere using a decrepit, ASCII line editor from the 70s which was dead dumb, even for the 70s). Needless to say, they've missed the last 20 years of the GUI computer revolution, on the front of text and text handling (a legacy of the UNIX community's shunning of that technology until MSGATES was chomping hard on their pure little fannies. You GO Bill, Chomp Harder!!). Well, Pro/e was 'plain vanilla' before it was plain or vanilla, and they stuck with it through 20 years of the latest computer revolution.
Well, I mistakenly thought that the solution of your problem might lie in an annotation feature. Ummm, no, this is just a dressed up 'Edit>Setup>Note' which is non-geometry (i.e., it cannot interface with a geometry modifying process like a text extrusion.
I was also wondering why the special text stuff inside of extrude: why can't you just create a note, for example ~ multiline, formatted the way you want, text style set ~ and turn this into a solid or a cut. Why all the Pro/GOOFY monkeying around!?!
Anyway, I got as far as an Annotation Feature and creating a Note within it and creating Note parameter. But none of the notes appeared and the Note parameter would accept no value besides zero. So, I totally bombed!!!! Maybe some trick config option in config.pro is the key to it all, who knows.
David Janes