Wrap text in notes?

There isn't any automatic way in the old Excel BOM. You can manually widen that line and manually put in a line feed character, but when thing change, you have to manually do it again. Too uncertain for me to consider it a good idea.

WT

My problem is not in the BOM where I can stretch the width of column but in the cartrides where I don't want to stretch the space for the description of the part.

I remedied this with a macro that fills in the Custom props. Say that my part description was

Some Bracket - Some Weldment In the BOM I only wanted to show

Some Bracket

but in the Drawing Name I wanted to show

Some Bracket Some Weldment

I used the macro to set 2 custom prop fields "Description" & "Description2"

"Description" fills in the BOM and "Description2" fills in the Title block

This way I type into the form on my macro

Some Bracket(ENTER) Some Weldment

then the macro sets both of them accordingly by searching for the (Enter character)

In other words there is no wrapping in SW you have to add an enter somehow. A function for creating a "wrapped after somany characters string" wouldn't be very dificult.

Corey Scheich

This is what I feared, that wrap option would be nice (acad has it).

Thanks

You can copy and paste the special 'wrap' character where you need the split. It can be found in a detail view note. It's a square shape.

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Hum, does not work for me here, I don't see the square box but just a smaller space which does nothing when pasted.

I got it! But I have to do a design table to force the wrap character to show. Is there any ascii code to get it faster?

I like that but I would prefer to be able to get it within SW..

hold ALT and type 013 this is the ascii code for enter

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I don't know if this exactly what you are looking for, but I put a macro on my website today which lets you specify the width of the selected annotations; these annotations will then be "word wrap enable" (as I call it), which is not possible from the GUI of SolidWorks.

The only blowback is that the annotation will loose the "use standard font" setting.

If you want to give it a try go to my macro page at

Any feedback is welcome.

HTH, Stefan

Stefan,

Nothing short of amazing!

Keep up the GREAT work,

John