T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Fundamentals. Two-Dimensional Design
Creating Paragraph Text
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Paragraph Text is a text located in a specified rectangular area. The lines of such text are wrapped
automatically upon reaching the area boundary. Various formatting functionalities can be used for paragraph
text creation that are applicable to any text fragment.
To create a paragraph text, use the command “TE: Create Text”.
When creating a text, the parameters are automatically used that were set as the default parameters (the
option ). Originally, these parameters use the settings “from status”. The text parameters will be applied
to the whole content of the given text.
When editing the contents of the text being created, you can assign specific parameters to its separate
elements, for example, to an isolated word or sentence. This capability is described in the topic “Standard
formatting options”.
Defining Text Position and Size
In the automenu, select the option:
Create paragraph text
To create a paragraph text, first define the position and boundaries of the rectangular area that will hold the
text (you can subsequently define several such areas with their boundaries). To do this, subsequently select
the two bounding points for attachment. This can be freely done by clicking or specified by selecting
existing nodes. Upon defining the first attachment point, a rectangle starts rubberbanding following the
pointer, indicating the size and position of the text being created.
One can subsequently input the boundaries of several such rectangles. This, however, creates only one
element of the type “paragraph text”. This means, as the text being input fully occupies the first rectangle,
the input automatically continues in the second rectangular area, etc. in the order of rectangles creation.
Next, click inside the defined area or the icon () to proceed with entering the text contents. At
this moment, the rectangle will appear as follows, depending on the way of attaching the text:
If the paragraph text is attached to nodes
In this case, the rectangle can be modified or moved using
the construction lines to which the paragraph text is attached.
If the paragraph text is not constrained
In this case, the rectangle can be moved, rotated or resized
by using the provided handles while in the text editing mode.
Move the rectangle using the handle located in the upper left
corner of the rectangular area. Move the pointer to the handle
(the pointer appearance will change), depress and drag the
mouse to the desired position. The rectangular area of the
text will follow the pointer.