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ArchiCAD to AutoCAD: Text in Level Dimensions Splitting into Two Lines (Fix)

Sefa Yakut — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:19:31 GMT

Hi,

When converting from Archicad to AutoCAD, if you add text to level dimensions manually, that text appears as two lines in AutoCAD for some unknown reason. Manually adjusting this text in AutoCAD to make it a single line is quite difficult.

Here’s the solution I came up with:

If you add a space at the end of the line of text you’ve added by pressing the space bar once, there won’t be any issues during conversion.

As far as I understand, the text gets cut off because a trim operation is applied during conversion, but by adding a space, you’re leaving a safe margin for the trim.

If you have any similar solutions, I’d love to hear them.

Br,

Sefa

Operating system used: Windows

Re: ArchiCAD to AutoCAD: Text in Level Dimensions Splitting into Two Lines (Fix)

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:21:16 GMT

Thanks for sharing. Fortunately, a relatively easy handling of this issue.

Re: ArchiCAD to AutoCAD: Text in Level Dimensions Splitting into Two Lines (Fix)

Patrick M — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:17:15 GMT

converting archicad to autocad (DWG) has always required a "thats a good as we can do" approach... otherwise we spend hours or days trying to clean up what the consultants can do in autocad in a few minutes or hours.
communication is key when sending DWG's. I always try to solicit a response to "is this going to work for you"...they'll take the heinous dwg output and grumble under their breath, but if we can take 5-10 minutes and save them the hassle, I go for it. I just wont generally be running fill/linework consolidation, unify, translator attribute/layer mapping, etc...