The Drafting Elements

The 2D drafting elements are primitives, Text Strings (TEXP) and Symbol Instances (SYMB) and Images (EXTIMG).

• Primitives are basic geometric shapes (for example, rectangle, circle, straight or arc).

• Text Strings can be up to 1000 characters in length, can be multi-line and can incorporate intelligent text codes. Four fonts are available, and character height, spacing and alignment can be varied in the same way as for Label text.

• Symbol Instances (SYMB) are particular instances of Symbol Templates (SYTM). The SYTM defines the composition of the symbol; the SYMB defines its size, position, and orientation.

  Symbol instances can be nested - the instanced SYTM can itself own SYMBs that reference other SYTMs. However, second-level and higher SYTMs must be owned by SYLBs, not LALBs. Any intelligent text codes in TEXPs owned by such SYTMs are not expanded.

• Images (EXTIMG) are images inserted from a file. They can be positioned under a view note (VNOT), note (NOTE) or a symbolic template (SYTM) element in the hierarchy.