Special Labels and Symbol Templates

SLABs can also reference Symbol Templates (SYTMs). SYTMs are members of LALBs or SYLBs (Symbol Libraries).

The appearance of SYTMs is completely user-definable, and can consist of any size and combination of basic geometrical shapes (for example, squares or circles), as well as text (which can be ‘intelligent’). SYTMs are generated using Draw’s 2D drafting facilities. See 2D Drafting for further information. (Note also that Point Construction can also be used to create SYTMs. See Point and Line Construction for further information. SYTMs are used in the same way as TXTMs.

As with ‘textual’ SLABs the appearance of the text, graphics and leader line of a ‘symbolic’ SLAB is (by default) controlled by the attributes of the referenced SYTM.

At a SLAB, five attributes can be set to overwrite the values provided by the SYTM:

Note that a SYTM can be composed of several graphics primitives each drawn in a different style or color. Overwriting the SYTM attribute values causes all the graphics primitives to adopt the single linestyle or color specified.

The initial values for these attributes on a newly created SLAB are cascaded from the Layer. Linestyles and color are described. See Colors and Styles for further information.