Annotation and Dress-Up

You can customize annotation and dress-up for Drafting using this section.

This page discusses:

Annotation Creation

Create orientation link between the text and the reference (Ctrl toggles)

Select this check box if you want to create annotation texts along a reference direction. For example, if you select a line when creating a text, the text is oriented parallel to the line.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Create leader extremity normal to reference (Ctrl toggles): Text

Select this check box if you want to create the extremity of text leaders normal to a reference direction. For example, if you select a line when creating a text with a leader, the leader is normal to the line.

Note: If this check box is selected, then the snapping on privileged directions is not available.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Create leader extremity normal to reference (Ctrl toggles): Geometrical Tolerance

Select this check box if you want to create the extremity of geometrical tolerance leaders normal to a reference direction. For example, if you select a line when creating a geometrical tolerance, the leader is normal to the line.

Note: If this check box is selected, then the snapping on privileged directions is not available.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Create rigid positional link: Text

Select this check box to create rigid positional links for texts whenever new positional links are created.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Create rigid positional link: Table

Select this check box to create rigid positional links for tables (between a table and its reference element) whenever new positional links are created.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Create rigid positional link: Geometrical Tolerance

Select this check box to create rigid positional links for geometrical tolerances.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Create text on attachment points only

Select this check box to choose only the attachment points of an annotation during the creation of a positional link. Otherwise, both the attachment points and the annotation itself can be selected.

By default, this check box is selected.

Legend Table Creation

Table Layout

Specifies various parameters for creating the legend table. Click to open the Table Layout dialog box.

Table 1. Various parameters and their default values to create legend tables
Cells Width Height Alignment
Title

10

middle-central

Image

10

Stretch is selected

middle-central

Legend

10

middle-central

Count per View

10

middle-central

Total Count

10

middle-central

Headers

10

Reported Items

10

For every parameter, the No Overload preference is available.

By default, It is cleared. That is, all preferences are overloaded.

For every parameter, the locking preference is available to disable the editing of the value by others.

By default, It is cleared. That is, all preferences are unlocked and open for editing.

Table

Recompute table when editing cell

Select this check box if you want a table to be resized while editing a cell. If this option is not selected, the table is resized after closing the Text Editor.

By default, this check box is selected.

Do not split table on several sheets

Important: This check box is available only when certain licenses are installed.

With certain licenses, the tables are split automatically on several sheets. Select this check box if you want to keep tables on a single sheet.

By default, this check box is selected.

Custom lists used to sort tables
Click to open Custom Lists dialog box.

In this dialog box, click Click here to add a new custom list. Enter the Name of this new custom list and its Entries. For example, in a list named "Weekdays" the entries can be entered as "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", and so on, with each entry in a new line separated by the Enter key.

This list can be later used to sort tables in Drafting, 2D Layout for 3D Design, and Functional & Logical Design apps using Multi Criteria Sorting.

You can define as many customs lists as required. You can also lock a list so that it cannot be edited or removed by other authors without administrator rights. Click to remove a list.

It is required to enter a unique name and at least one entry for each list.

Area Fill

Ask for deletion of geometry support

Select this check box if you want a message to appear each time you delete an area fill, prompting you to confirm whether you want to delete the area fill support geometry.

When this option is cleared, the message does not appear and the area fill support geometry is not deleted.

Important: When deleting the isolated area fills, this message does not appear, as there is no support geometry to delete.

By default, this check box is selected.

Area Fill detection optimized for geometry: Generated or sketched

Select this check box when creating area fills mainly on generated or sketched geometries, to define the tolerance mode allowed when creating an area fill profile.

By default, this check box is selected.

Area Fill detection optimized for geometry: Imported from external format

Select this check box when creating area fills mainly on views imported from external formats, to define the tolerance mode allowed when creating an area fill profile.

By default, this check box is cleared.