Challenging sketch constraint with variable text - not mission critical!

sasha_sklar061

I have a use case where I'm populating a text block from a configuration variable to emboss onto a face and depending on the length of the text it either breaks out either horizontally or vertically. Plenty of ways to work around it but I'm curious if there's a "pure" sketch constraint approach…

I'm probably going with an expression approach that pads with whitespace if the character count is below a give length…

eric_pesty

I don't think you can do it just at the sketch level as you would need to change which dimension is driving depending on the limiting dimension.

Here's an example I built to answer a similar questions a while back:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/691dc3dfc28f13d9c5f7a6fb/w/b959d623f3efe63dfea46f91/e/5bd3419483a0ece428be1757?configuration=text%3DABC&renderMode=0&tangentEdgeStyle=1&uiState=69c4254f646904348d542237

eric_pesty

I don't think you can do it just at the sketch level as you would need to change which dimension is driving depending on the limiting dimension.

Here's an example I built to answer a similar questions a while back:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/691dc3dfc28f13d9c5f7a6fb/w/b959d623f3efe63dfea46f91/e/5bd3419483a0ece428be1757?configuration=text%3DABC&renderMode=0&tangentEdgeStyle=1&uiState=69c4254f646904348d542237

S1mon

If you did this a lot, a custom feature would be the way to go.

sasha_sklar061

That's giving late 90s/early 2000s webdev hack and I love it!

My use case specific hack (length(#Variant_Code) <=3 ? " "~#Variant_Code~" " : #Variant_Code) doesn't work because the text field is a little too aggressive with eating trailing whitespace and the font doesn't include special characters like thin space so I may have to go with that.

Text handling (and the 2D workflow in general) really needs some love…