Special Labels and Symbol Templates

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

The appearance of SYTMs is completely user-definable, and may consist of any size and combination of basic geometrical shapes (squares, circles etc), as well as text (which may be ‘intelligent’). SYTMs are generated using Draft’s 2D drafting facilities - see 2D Drafting. (Note also that Point Construction (see Point and Line Construction) can also be used to create SYTMs.) 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 the following five attributes may be set to overwrite the values provided by the SYTM:

Note that a SYTM may be composed of several graphics primitives each drawn in a different style or colour. Overwriting the SYTM attribute values will cause all the graphics primitives to adopt the single linestyle or colour specified.

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