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You can place a label in a few basic steps. First, you select the label that you want from Catalog Explorer and then identify the item in the drawing that you want to label.

Labels can have two-point placement or one-point placement. You use one-point placement when a single point in the drawing identifies both the item to label and the location of the label. You use two-point placement when you need one click to identify the item to label and a second click to indicate a different location for the label.

Some labels have no symbology associated with them; that is, they contain text only (for example, the Short Description label for Equipment). If you place such a label, but the properties that normally appear have not been entered yet, you have an empty label. Because there is no symbology associated with this type of label, it would be essentially invisible on the drawing. However, empty labels display a question mark so that you can find them more easily and not unnecessarily repeat work.

You can add a leader line to a label by right-clicking on the label and choosing Leader line display. If you place a leader line with the label, the first click also identifies the end of the leader.

Labels can be moved by selecting the label and dragging the black square at the center of the label. Drag the label to the location that you want it to occupy in the drawing.

You set the placement type of a label at its creation in Catalog Manager. Afterwards, you cannot change the placement type in the design software.

  • Changing default label formats in Options Manager (for example, changing temperature from K to °C) does not change labels that are already placed in drawings.  After you have changed the label format using Options Manager, you can use the Update Drawings command in Drawing Manager or use the Replace command in Smart P&ID to update the existing labels in your drawings.

  • When placed on a drawing, all delivered labels that include units of measure use the plant default formats defined in Options Manager, and so labels do not always display the units of measure selected in the Properties window. To ensure that a label displays the units of measure specified in the Properties window, in Catalog Manager, select the required label, and from the Format list on the SmartText Editor dialog, select the As Entered option.

  • A line label follows a line when you change its angle, for example, changing from horizontal to vertical. A label and its assigned leader line follow when you move a line. When you recalculate a line, the software does not delete the label but repositions it in an associated location on the line.

  • When you place a property break label, the software stops the sharing of data between segments of pipe. In other words, you break the pipe run.

  • When you place an off-page connector (OPC), the software automatically creates and stores a matching connector in either a plant or project stockpile or the stockpile of another drawing. The matching connector receives the value, for example, From Drawing 123, where the number corresponds to the drawing. After you place the matching connector from the stockpile into the related drawing, the software automatically updates the matching connector in the original drawing (To Drawing 122, for example).