Still working on the best ways to handle annotations in electrical fixtures - the maintain annotation orientation switch only controls that one symbol...hadn't quite figured out how to get the text to stay right reading...watch for a new posted coming soon...
In the meantime, there's a quick way to add labels to a tag without having to add additional label elements in a tag. Open an existing tag and then save a copy of it. Select the label, and then choose Edit Label. From the Edit Label dialog, select the parameter you want to add to the tag. By default they're placed sequentially, so the new addition (which will show up in order in th dialog) will be at the end of the list. Select OK, and then use the grips to stretch the label width - if you want the labels stacked, make the width shorter - if you want them in a single line, make it wider.
Add separate label elements if you want to nest several types within a tag, then use the visibilty controls to turn the labels on and off as needed.
later - dab
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You can also apply "breaks" to the label. The last column in the Label Dialog is "Break." Check that after Parameters where you want a "return" (for thse of us that have ever used a typewriter.)
That way you can oversize the Label Extents box to accomodate parameters that are longer than the "Sample Value" place holder.
good reminder - I made sure that made it into the advanced book - was fooling around with it this morning. I also like how single labels with mutliple parameters will leave out unpopulated info - for example, leave the second label empty, and the other two labels are all that are seen, with no blank line in between...nice...
thanks - dab
Another tip.
You can change Parameter values directly through the Tag-even type parameters (which can be good AND bad.)
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