Labels

On the Labels tab of the Annotation Set form, you can set the appearance of text labels, specify their horizontal and vertical alignment, and set the appearance of the arrows for text callouts.

Text Label

Text properties

Double-click on the Text Properties Preview box to select a font and set text properties for the labels.

Colour

Double-click to select a Colour for the text labels.

Alignment

Horizontal Anchor & offset

By default, the Horizontal alignment of the text is LEFT. If you want to change it, specify the horizontal (LEFT, RIGHT, CENTRE) alignment of the text relative to the anchor point.

Optionally, specify the horizontal distance that the text will be offset from the point. The Horizontal Offset is a multiple of the character width.

Vertical Anchor & offset

By default, the Vertical alignment of the text is CENTRE. If you want to change it, specify the vertical (TOP, BOTTOM, CENTRE) alignment of the text relative to the anchor point.

Optionally, specify the vertical distance that the text will be offset from the point. The Vertical Offset is a multiple of the character height.

Angle

By default, the angle of the text is 0, which places the text parallel to the X axis of the screen. If you want to show the label at an angle, enter the number of degrees in the Angle prompt.

For example, an entry of 90 in this field will position the text parallel to the Y axis. Any angle between the cardinal points is also acceptable.

Arrows

Colour

Double-click to select a Colour for the Dimension lines.

Line type

Select a line type. A preview of each line type is shown in the drop-down list. A variety of solid, dotted, and dashed line styles are available for selection.

Line width

Select a (THIN, MEDIUM, THICK, or custom) line width from the drop-down list. An extensive selection of custom widths (in millimetres) are available for selection.

Tip and Tail types

Use the drop-down boxes to select arrow Tip (start-of-line) and Tail (end-of-line) types for the callout lines.

Tip and Tail sizes

Use the spin controls to select a size for the Tail and Tip line end types you have selected.

Underline labels

Select this check box to underline new Callout Text annotations with the arrow tail by default. Note that underlining is only applied for a Callout Text annotation when its Vertical alignment relative to the anchor point is set to Top or Bottom.

Text Box

The Text Box section of the Labels tab provides options to determine the default shape, size and margins of text boxes for your labels. You can change the settings for each text box, if required, using the options in the Text Box form on adding them.

Shape

Select a default shape for the text boxes you add to your Annotations from the drop down list of available shapes:

The selected shape will be applied by default to any Text Box you add. The shape of individual text boxes can be changed using the Text Box form when adding them.

If you click the Customise... button, the Text Box Shape form opens and you can configure the default Anchor and Rounded Corners settings for your annotation text boxes.

Lock aspect ratio

Select this check box to maintain the aspect ratio of the box whenever the box is resized.

Resize shape to fit text

When this check box is selected the box is automatically resized so that a best-fit of the text is achieved. To maintain the aspect ratio during resizing, select the Lock aspect ratio option (above).

Margins

Use the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right margin fields to specify the margin on each side of the box, or accept the default values.

Forms

Click the Forms button to select and open a saved form set, or if a form set has been loaded, save the current form set.

OK

Once you have set Dimensioning and Labelling options, click OK to apply them.