View Text Definition

View Text includes information (View Name and Scale) related to the view it belongs to. This section deals with the View Text definition parameters, located in the Views > View Text node of the Standard Definition editor, available via Me > Preferences > Standards.

Note: All these parameters are considered only during the view creation. After creating a view text if the type of the view is changed, the view text is not updated according to the standard definition. Only the name text and the scale text can be updated as they are attribute links on name and scale.

For example, if you select to display the view scale only when the view and sheet have different scales, the view scale is not modified in the view text when modifications are made to the view or sheet features after creation.

See Also
View Name Definition
Parameter Description Value
Text style name Indicates the name of the text style to use when creating the View Text.

Lets you configure the text style. If the text style does not exist, the current text style is used.

Alphanumerical string.

Note: The default value for the text style name is "ViewText".

Alignment Specifies the position of the View Text according to the view overall dimensions.

  • Top Left
  • Top Center (default value for ISO and JIS standards)
  • Top Right
  • Bottom Left
  • Bottom Center (default value for ASME standard)
  • Bottom Right

Add view name for views Specifies whether the name text should be added in the View Text.

For each view type:

  • Check box selected: Name text is added.
  • Check box cleared: Name text is not added.

Display

Specifies how the view scale should be displayed.

  • Always: View scale is always displayed.
  • Never: View scale is never displayed.
  • When it is different from the sheet scale: View scale is displayed only when it is different from the sheet scale

Display on a new line

Specifies whether the scale character string should be displayed on a new line.

  • Check box selected: Scale is displayed on a new line.
  • Check box cleared: Scale is not displayed on a new line.

String

Allows defining the content of the scale character string. Two keywords are used in this parameter.

  • (#SCALE_ATTR#): It stands for scale attribute value of a view.
  • #SCALE#: It stands for the NLS value of the word “SCALE”. For example in French language environment, the keyword #SCALE# is replaced by the word “ECHELLE”. To display the word SCALE whatever is the language environment, replace the #SCALE# keyword by SCALE.
Font Size Ratio

Specifies the font size of the scale character string. This is a ratio of the font size defined in the text style used to create the View Text.

Range of acceptable values is between 1% and 200%.

Scale separator

Lets you configure the separator used to represent the scale (for example “1:2” or “1/2”).

:

/

The following table lists standard default values of all the parameters to configure the scale character string added to the View Text.

Parameter ISO JIS ANSI-ASME
Scale character string (#SCALE_ATTR#) (#SCALE_ATTR#) #SCALE#: #SCALE_ATTR#
Display on a new line No No Yes
Font size ratio 100% 100% 50%
Display When it is different from the sheet scale When it is different from the sheet scale When it is different from the sheet scale
Scale separator : : /