Controlling Label Appearance and Elements to be Tagged

Label Appearance

This is defined by the element referenced by the TAGR’s TMRF attribute. If the referenced element is a GLAB or a SLAB, the generated labels will be identical to it except for attributes DDNM and LVIS (which will be set TRUE). The GLAB or SLAB need not be in the current Drawing.

If the referenced element is a TXTM or SYTM, the basic style of the generated SLABs will be defined by the referenced template, but detail appearance attributes will be cascaded down from the owning LAYE. Attributes CHEI, FONT, LFSTYLE/LFCOLOUR and TXCOLOUR may be set at LAYE level to ‘TEMPLATE’, which means that these attributes will take their values from the template referenced by the TAGR. (This applies only to SLABs; other LAYE members, for which the ‘TEMPLATE’ setting would be meaningless, would be created with values of 4mm, 1, 1 and 1 (respectively) for these attributes.)

Elements to be Tagged

These are defined by the element referenced by the TAGR’s IDLN attribute. By default, this is set to reference the WORLD, in which case all elements included in the owning VIEW’s Id List will be considered for tagging. If the IDLN attribute is set to refer to an Id List, only those elements common to this Id List and the VIEW’s Id List will be considered for tagging. Similarly, if the IDLN attribute is set to refer to a Design element, only those elements common to this element and the VIEW’s Id List will be considered for tagging.