Don't wrap text, wrap dim, then undo it.

[Baghera]

It's very hard to know what other people will be see as useful.
Back in the mid-80s I read George Head's book "1001 Tips & Tricks ....".
To 90 percent of them I thought "Yes?So? Isn't that the way everybody does it?"
So, things that seem unremarkable, even obvious, may be of great help to others; or may not.
Which is why you post them anyway.

Here are a few of mine;

NOWRAP is the sysvar to regulate text wraping in the editor
\X after the <> in a dim dialog willgive you a cariage return
CRTL+Y is REDO
text can be used to trim

[Glenn Pope]

I use \X and \P alot.

Anything placed after the \X will be placed under the dim line.

\P does a carriage return but keeps it above the dim line.

[mtlynn]

I just tryed the \X an all it did was make a second line above the dim line mot below. What gives.

[Glenn Pope]

Can you post the file so we can look at it.

[keelay711]

If the dimtext has been manually moved away from its default position, then the "\x" will only act as a carriage return.

[tommy.huckabee]

i used the \x and it works. thats a really good tip.
thanks
Tommy

[Scott Davis]

If the dimtext has been manually moved away from its default position, then the "\x" will only act as a carriage return.command: DIM
Dim: HOME
Select Objects: <select a dimension>

This will retrun the text to it's default position, restoring the ability to have the /x return to the next line.

[J. Grouchy]

\P does a carriage return but keeps it above the dim line.

There's no need to type \P...just type return and it will automatically do that.

[J. Grouchy]

command: DIM
Dim: HOME
Select Objects: <select a dimension>

This will retrun the text to it's default position, restoring the ability to have the /x return to the next line.


Or you can select the particular dimensions, right click and select "home text" from the menu items as shown in the attached image...

(PS - the image is from ACAD r2000i...so this is nothing new)

[Scott Davis]

right click and select "home text"
Thanks for that one! I'm still "Old School" AutoCAD for many things....mainly I'm still a typer, use key-ins and typed commands above all else.

[J. Grouchy]

Despite many years of CAD use, I'm still not an ace at the keyboard (I usually have to peek)...so I found a lot of quick routes to CAD functions via the mouse that many never bothered to look for. As for the keyboard, I always would set up aliases in CAD that would be easier to type (first one to go was "DI" for distance...change to "DD", second was match properties - "MM", then "CO" for copy was changed to "C" and circle became "CC", etc etc etc).
I just can't hop around on the keyboard very efficiently like many people can, so any command that was more than two keys apart got fixed. Same for Revit, though there isn't as much flexibility in Revit shortcuts as there is for ACAD. Fortunately there isn't so much trimming and filleting and all that junk in Revit, so it isn't so much of a hassle.