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WORD DOCUMENTS IN SW DRAWINGS

WORD DOCUMENTS IN SW DRAWINGS

WORD DOCUMENTS IN SW DRAWINGS

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The assembly drawings that we create at this company contain assembly procedures on the drawing. These procedures can be quite long. I have been attempting to write them in Word and then paste them onto the format.
I am having difficulties in sizing the text on the format as well as editing the text as well. In this case I can not get the left margin of the text to appear on the drawing. The margin can be adjusted when edited in Word, but when you close it it still is cut off on the format.

Is anyone else having difficulty with this? Writing long notes that need to be outline numbered is not very easy to do in standard SW annotation. Or am I doing something wrong?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

RE: WORD DOCUMENTS IN SW DRAWINGS

I never add Word docs to a dwg. I insert them into the Design Binder.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)

RE: WORD DOCUMENTS IN SW DRAWINGS

Do you paste the text as a note or just paste it directly onto the sheet?

You should be able to copy all the text (CTRL+A then CTRL+C in WORD). Then switch over to SolidWorks, start a new NOTE and paste the text into this note. You can then change text heights etc.

Regards,

BANDH

RE: WORD DOCUMENTS IN SW DRAWINGS

Have you tried Main Menu/Insert/Object and just leaving it that way?

Ken

RE: WORD DOCUMENTS IN SW DRAWINGS

Try Notepad or Wordpad and writing plain *.txt or *.rtf file formats.  This will paste more reliably into SW annotations.

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