Creating Stacking Texts on Plies

Stacking Text on Plies adds text information to several stacking entities.

  1. Select a stacking, a plies group, a sequence, a ply, a cut-piece or a flatten body as the parent of the stacking text.
  2. Select 3D as the type of text.
    1. Select the type of Anchor.

      The point can be selected or created with the context menu.

  3. Alternatively, select On Flatten as.
    1. Choose a category from the list.
    2. Select the type of Anchor

      Best fit (automatic) is a one-shot positioning. It is not updated if the ply shape or orientation are modified.

  4. Define the text.

    Stacking Text on Plies supports all characters as well as keywords.

    In the resulting text, whenever possible, a keyword is replaced by the corresponding value. Otherwise, it remains as is in the resulting text. The interpretation of a keyword depends on its position in the stacking:

  5. Define the orientation of the text.
  6. Define the Size of the font.