I have downloaded a manufacturers detail as a .DWG and all the texts are a little truncated like with a hidden return.
I am Manually editing each box to delete the return and press the enter key on the key board to accept. This key performs a return and not an enter. The right mouse button brings up a drop down menu.
My reading suggests the enter key is a quick key unless i am mistaken.
I have tried a number of key combinations with no luck. I have to click the apply button each time.
Many thanks.
Normally the Enter key in a text entry box specifies a new line. When editing already existing texts, the edits are real-time so no Enter is needed to accept. When creating new texts, one needs to hit the OK button to accept, neither Enter nor Spacebar work in this case as they are interpreted as being part of the text.
Thank you for the reply. I use a full size keyboard, with return and enter separately. In my other other CAD program the Return and Enter key perform the separate named functions.
You are right with Pages, Numbers and even typing on this forum the Enter key and the Return function as the same key. It must be programmed differently in CAD.
I found in Rhino editing the texts, if i make the change, then just mouse and select another text the previous one is automatically accepted.
One of those muscle memory features…
Hmm, yes, this is a Mac or program-specific thing I guess - on Windows full sized keyboards both the Enter in the normal keyboard section and the Enter in the numeric keypad do the same thing - in any Windows program I have experienced.
I have been fiddling. There seems 3 ways to edit a text objects on a mac. Click on text and edit in the side panel, which works as described above. Use the Edit Text button, which is the same as before and sends you to the edit text side panel, or double click on the text which opens up a separate panel which says ‘Edit text’ where on completion ‘Cmd + Enter’ completes the edit and closes the panel.
This seems to be the quickest way to edit text objects as it all happens under the mouse button.
Inconsistent approach, but does offer a variety of methods.
The reason i bring this up is importing manufacturer details in .DWG always has the text objects seperated into a box line by line and the need to open one, copy, then open another one to paste so that they can be combined into the correct box and format.
Thanks for listening.
Ak, interesting, I never edit text that way, and on Windows I note that Ctrl+Enter in that dialog indeed closes and accepts the edit without adding a new line.