{"id":110,"date":"2012-12-24T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/how-to-overline-text-on-a-solidworks-drawing"},"modified":"2013-07-22T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:09:08","slug":"how-to-overline-text-on-a-solidworks-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2012\/12\/how-to-overline-text-on-a-solidworks-drawing.html","title":{"rendered":"How to overline text on a SolidWorks drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2017c3409c217970b.png\" style=\"float: left;\"><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>Remastered from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"SolidWorks Legion\">SolidWorks Legion <\/a>article entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1347\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: How to overline text on a SolidWorks drawing\">How to overline text on a SolidWorks drawing<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2017c3409c217970b.png\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"11-27-2012 1-05-31 PM\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2017c3409c217970b\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2017c3409c217970b-50wi.png\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; border: 2px #000000; width: 25px;\" title=\"11-27-2012 1-05-31 PM\" \/><\/a>Occasionally, a SolidWorks user may need to state a number or variable as approximate within an annotation note.&#0160; The mathematical symbol for this is an overline.&#0160; Overlining text is supported via a trick in SolidWorks.&#0160; Here is a quick and dirty trick for creating overlined text on SolidWorks drawing:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start an annotation note.&#0160; <\/li>\n<li>With the note active and the text&#0160;cursor placed at the desired location within the note, click on the <em>Stack<\/em> button from the <em>Annotations<\/em> toolbar.&#0160;<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2017ee5ad65a9970d.png\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled222\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2017ee5ad65a9970d\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2017ee5ad65a9970d-800wi.png\" title=\"Untitled222\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Choose the style with the division line across the center.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the bottom alignment option.<\/li>\n<li>Type your overlined text in the Lower text field.<\/li>\n<li>Select OK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2017c3409bf9c970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"285x203xstackwinww_jpg_pagespeed_ic_AcYOM5qFCp\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2017c3409bf9c970b\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2017c3409bf9c970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"285x203xstackwinww_jpg_pagespeed_ic_AcYOM5qFCp\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The one drawback to this trick is that it will force spacing above your line of text.&#0160; This may only be a concern if one tries to use this technique within the general notes.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remastered from SolidWorks Legion article entitled How to overline text on a SolidWorks drawing. Occasionally, a SolidWorks user may need to state a number or variable as approximate within an annotation note.&#0160; The mathematical symbol for this is an overline.&#0160;<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2012\/12\/how-to-overline-text-on-a-solidworks-drawing.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[176,174,173,175,19],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-tricks","tag-drafting","tag-drawing","tag-drawings","tag-mechanical-drawing","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}