Set the attributes for text in a drawing or sketch.
Modeling environments:
Ribbon: Sketch tab Create panel Text or Leader Text
Drawing environment:
Ribbon: Annotate tab Text panelText or Leader Text
Right-click a dimension or hole note, and click Text.
Ribbon: Annotate tab Text panelText or Thread note
After creating a thread note, save the file. Then, double-click the thread note. The text editor opens.
Specifies the text style to apply to the text. Click the arrow and select from the list of available text styles.
Specifies the paragraph attributes for selected text.
Positions the text within the text box. The following image illustrates the relationship between justification choices and text box points.
Available when Single Line Text is selected and when creating sketch text.
Removes all line breaks from multiline text. Available only for sketch text.
Spacing Value specifies the value for line spacing, when you set line spacing to Exactly or Multiple.
Sizes the text to fit the designated space, such as a text box. Available only for sketch text.
Specifies the text width. Enter 100 to display the text as designed, enter 50 to decrease the width of the text by 50%.
Rotates the text around the insertion point. For example, if text is top and left-justified, the text rotates around the top left corner.
For a drawing note, click the arrow to select the rotation orientation or enter the angle of rotation in the edit box. For sketch text, select a Rotate option from the list, or create a new UCS to orient the text.
Specifies the text font. Click the arrow and select from the list of available fonts.
Sets the height of the text in sheet units (inches or millimeters). Enter the size or click the arrow and select a size from the list.
Specifies the text color. Click the Color command, and then select a color from the Color dialog box. In the Color dialog box, select the By Layer check box to set the color specified by the text layer. Clear the check box to select a color. The color command shows the selected color or layer color.
Sets the style. Click Bold, Italic, Underline, or Strikethrough to apply the style to the text.
Stacks strings to create diagonal or horizontal stacked fractions, and superscript or subscript strings. Available if the selected string is in a correct stacking format.
Examples of correct stacking format:
Allows constraining and dimensioning to text. Available only for sketch text.
Specifies border or no border around text or leader text. Resulting text is wrapped in a border when Text Border is selected.
At the bottom of the symbol list, the Windows Character Map command accesses characters not available as standard keyboard characters. In the Character Map, click a character, and then click Select and then click Copy. In the Format Text pane, right-click and select Paste.
When retrieving model properties, the model source depends on the sketch type:
Sheet or Draft View sketch
Top-level model of the first view on the sheet. If the first base view on the sheet is deleted, the next base view on the sheet becomes the data source for properties.
View sketch
Top-level model of the view.
Specifies property and parameter types from the drawing, the source model, or the custom property source file (for external and model custom properties) specified on the Drawings tab of the Document Settings dialog box.
Note:
Lists the available sources for the properties and parameters associated with the selected Type. Select the origin of the properties or parameters you will use.
Specifies the parameter, associated with the selected Type and Source, to insert into the text. Click the arrow and select from the list.
Specifies the precision for numerical properties displayed in the text. Select the desired precision from the list.
Inserts the selected property or parameter based on the Type, Source, and Property or Parameter into the text at the insertion point.
To zoom the edited text, place the cursor in the editing field, hold the CTRL key on your keyboard, and scroll the mouse wheel.
With Spell Check enabled, Inventor checks spelling automatically as you type in the Format Text dialog box.
Words entered in the Format Text dialog box are matched to the words in the default and the active custom. A red squiggly line indicates a potential spelling issue. Right-click on a flagged word to access options for resolving the spelling issue:
Use the settings on the General tab in the Applications Options dialog box, (Tools tab Options panel Application Options) to manage Spell Check and custom dictionaries. By default, Spell Check is turned on.