Labels - SmartSketch - Help

SmartSketch Help

Language
English
Product
SmartSketch
Search by Category
Help
SmartSketch Version
7.1(2011R1)

Technical drawings often have many labels that display important information about the objects or elements in the document. There are two types of labels: text labels and SmartLabels.

Text labels are associated with an element or object. If you move the element or object, the text label moves with it. You can create text labels in a document by double-clicking an element or object. A text label appears near the element so that you can type text. The label appears at the location where the element is double-clicked, except for closed elements, such as a circle or rectangle. The label position on closed elements is the center of the element. When you enter the text that you want, the text label orients itself with the element.

Another kind of label, a SmartLabel, can be associated to an object or element's text attributes. A SmartLabel is often distinguished by a question mark in the display.

A SmartLabel displays the attributes of the element or object as text in the document. You can drag SmartLabels from the Symbol Explorer into the current document. SmartLabels have an .sym extension. As you change an element's or object's attributes in the Attribute Viewer or the Properties dialog box, the SmartLabel's text displays those changes.

If an element or object has no attributes, and you drag a SmartLabel to it, the element or object picks up the attributes of the SmartLabel. For example, you might want to assign attributes to a heat exchanger, such as pressure and material type. If the SmartLabel has the pressure and material type defined, and the heat exchanger does not, the SmartLabel's pressure and material type are copied to the heat exchanger.

If an element already has existing attributes, a SmartLabel placed on the element displays the values for the existing attributes. For example, if the heat exchanger already has values for pressure and material type attributes, the values of those attributes are filled in for a SmartLabel placed on the heat exchanger.

Not all SmartLabels assume the text attributes of an element or object. Some SmartLabels contain shapes that grow automatically if you add text to the SmartLabel.

See Also

Edit a Text Label
Create a Text Label