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Intergraph Smart 3D Drawings and Reports Reference Data

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Drawing labels provide information about the objects inside a drawing view, such as properties from a database report, text, or graphics (such as a north arrow). The following illustration shows three label examples:

labels example

1 - Elevation label
2 - Text label with border and leader
3 - North arrow

Labels are added to drawings either automatically through label rules, or manually using the Place a Label command when the drawing is open in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor. For more information on manually placing labels, see Place a Manual Label in the Orthographic Drawings User's Guide, available from Help > Printable Guides.

Drawing labels are automatically added to drawings using a multi-tiered approach. A label rule places one or more labels. Each label uses a label template. Each template uses the necessary annotation modules, symbols, and reports to format the label, control its appearance, and place the label on a drawing.

The flowchart below illustrates label structure.

SHARED Tip Click a box in the diagram to go to the associated topic.

In previous versions of Smart 3D, you manually edited an .xml file to modify a label rule or template. The software now provides the Label Rule Manager, a graphical user interface that allows you to edit the available properties for a label template. Depending on your settings for modules and properties in the Label Rule Manager, the list of available properties can change. The Label Rule Manager does not save or display properties and modules that are unavailable for the template you are modifying. For more information, see Label Rule Manager.

  • There are some label rules and templates that the Label Rule Manager does not support. To make changes to these unsupported rules and templates, you must manually edit the associated .xml file.

  • If the software displays an elevation coordinate label as EL +0 or EL -0 instead of EL 0, add the ZeroZ tag to the Drawings_UOM.rfp report template as shown below:

    <MATRIX LinkName="MyTransformA 14"

    DisplayName=""

    ModelName=""

    CSType="0"

    PosX="E "

    NegX="W "

    PosY="N "

    NegY="S "

    PosZ="EL+"

    NegZ="EL-"

    ZeroZ="EL "

    XYReferenceAxis="1"

    CanInherit="Yes"/>

    Drawings_UOM_ZeroZ no tag

    Drawings_UOM_ZeroZ tag

    Label placed without ZeroZ tag

    Label placed with ZeroZ tag

  • The Drawings_UOM.rfp report template is delivered in the [Reference Data Folder]\<RefDataShare>\Drawings\Catalog\Labels\Templates folder.

  • Label rule and label template .xml files are delivered in the following folders:

    • Label rules - [Reference Data Folder]\SharedContent\Drawings\Catalog\Rules\LabelRules

    • Label templates and symbols used by the label rules - [Reference Data Folder]\<RefDataShare>\Drawings\Catalog\Labels\Templates

You can create label rules that automatically place labels with or without text box borders and leader lines. You can even specify that the labels find clear space on the drawing, as shown below.

The delivered rules include several rule types, such as control point labels, grid line labels, name labels, name and part labels, and piping labels. Assign label rules as part of the drawing view style using the Tools > Define View Style command in the Drawings and Reports task. For more information, see the Orthographic Drawings User's Guide.

Most labels are managed by and bulkloaded from the Reports.xls file. This workbook contains the reference data for labels. For additional information, see Reports Reference Data. Labels specific to marine mode drawings by rule are not managed by the Reports.xls file. For more information, see Label Rules in Drawings by Rule.

Many label rules place only one label, so the rule uses only one label template. The rule and template .xml files frequently have the same file name but are located in different folders.

To manually relocate or reorganize the label folder structure, edit each associated label rule .xml file. Type the correct relative path and name for the template files after each <name> tag in the .xml file, as shown below.

Delivered path

ViewRuleExampleDel

Modified path

ViewRuleExampleMod

Layering Labels

You can specify the 2D layer on which your annotation labels display in the drawing using the Label Layer property in the Label Rule Manager. If the layer does not already exist in the template you are using to create drawings, the software creates the layer automatically. For more information, see Label Layer (labelLayer).

In previous versions of Smart 3D, you added a <labelLayerSettings> definition using the <labelLayer> tag as shown in the example below:

Prioritizing Labels

When placing clear space labels (that is, labels that do not overlap other graphics or labels), you can use the Priority property in the Label Rule Manager to dictate which labels in the drawing have a higher chance of being placed at their preferred positions, as specified by the positioning module.

The software attempts to place an annotation (such as a label or a dimension) in clear space as close as possible to that object's Connect Point. Multiple annotations do not overlap. The Priority property allows you to assign a priority to each annotation, with 1 being the highest priority. The software places the annotation with the highest priority closest to that object's Connect Point. Additional annotations with lower priorities are placed further away from the corresponding object's Connect Point.

To define the priority, type a positive integer in the Priority text box.

priority_two equipment labels set to 1

1 - Equipment labels placed with Priority set to 1
2 - Structure label placed with Priority set to 2

priority_combined examples

1 - Equipment label placed with Priority set to 2
2 - Structure label placed with Priority set to 1

Labels that have the same priority number do not overlap in the drawing if there is sufficient clear space, but neither label receives preferential treatment for placement.

See Also

Label Rules in Drawings by Rule
Label Templates in Drawings by Rule
Symbol Definition for Drawings by Rule
Report Template
Annotation Modules
View Style Rules