The Drafting Elements

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

Primitives are basic geometric shapes (rectangle, circle, straight, arc etc).

Text Strings may be up to 1000 characters in length, may be multi-line and may incorporate intelligent text codes. Four fonts are available, and character height, spacing and alignment may 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 may 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 will not be expanded.