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Last UpdatedDec 12, 2023
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The DRAW_TEXT statement is used to define the texts to be set in the bevel notes in drawings. The text is formed via references to basic texts, defined earlier in the input scheme.

Each text definition is related to a basic bevel type, that means, all instances (bevel codes) of one basic type will have the same text definition. However, each variant of the bevel type has a text definition of its own. (The resulting texts may, of course, be different because of differences in the values of the parameters, referred to, even if the definition is identical).

Syntax:

DRAW_TEXT,<bevel_no>
[/<var_key> = (<b_text>[,<b_text> (2...10)]) ( 0...5)
;

The attributes have the following interpretation:

<bevel_no>	is the basic bevel type for which the definition is valid. It must be selected as one of the existing bevel types.
<var_key>	is a keyword that defines the variant of the bevel type for which the text should be valid.
	<var_key>::= VAR_0 \| VAR_1 \| VAR_2 \| VAR_3 \| VAR_4 \| VAR_9
	The digit indicates the variant number. (Not all combinations of bevel type and variants are relevant, cf. the survey of bevel types above).
	For fillet bevel types normally only VAR_0 is relevant.
<b_text>	is the number of a previously defined basic text (cf. the BASIC_TEXT Statement above). Up to 10 basic texts may be concatenated into one text.
	For certain bevel types there might be texts above as well as below the reference lines of the bevel note in the drawing. Giving basic text number 0 indicates the end of the text above the reference line and the beginning of the text below the line.
	If no 0 has been indicated, there is only text above the line.
	Any of the two resulting texts may be empty.

The examples below use the basic texts, defined above in the BASIC_TEXT statement.

Example:
1.	DRAW_TEXT,10 /VAR_1= 91 /VAR_2=(0, 91) ;
	This would result in the following texts: Variant 0: None. Variant 1: 'chmf.' above the reference line Variant 2: as variant 0 with 'chmf.' added below the reference line.
2.	DRAW_TEXT, 30 /VAR_0= (10, 60) /VAR_1= (10, 60, 91) /VAR_2= (10, 60, 0, 91) /VAR_4= (10, 60)
	This would result in (supposing Alpha=30, Nose=6) (read 'o' as 'degree'): variant 0, 2 and 4: '30o Toe 6' (above the reference line) variant 1: '30o Toe 6 chmf.' (above the reference line) variant 2: 'chmf.' below the reference line
	The statements below define a large part of the texts that may be required for a customer to set up his texts to be used in drawings (however, with no examples for variant 9).
	DRAW_TEXT, 10 /VAR_1= 91 /VAR_2= (0, 91) ; DRAW_TEXT, 20 /VAR_0= 10 /VAR_1= (10, 91) /VAR_2= (10, 0, 91) /VAR_4= (10, 60); DRAW_TEXT, 30 /VAR_0= (10, 60) /VAR_1= (10, 60, 91) /VAR_2= (10, 60, 0, 91) /VAR_4= (10, 60); DRAW_TEXT, 40 /VAR_0= (10, 60) /VAR_1= (10, 60, 91) /VAR_2= (10, 60, 0, 91) /VAR_3= (10, 60, 30) /VAR_4= (10, 60, 30); DRAW_TEXT, 50 /VAR_0= 10 /VAR_1= (10, 91) /VAR_2= (10, 0, 91) /VAR_3= (10, 30) /VAR_4= (10, 30); DRAW_TEXT, 51 /VAR_0= (10, 30, 0, 20) /VAR_1= (10, 30, 91, 0, 20) /VAR_2= (10, 30, 0, 20, 91) /VAR_3= (10, 30, 0, 20) /VAR_4= (10, 30, 0, 20);

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