Gridline Tag Patterns

The gridline tag patterns allow the administrator to customize the way in which grid data is tagged within the MDS ABA location plan which is created in the Draft application. PML expressions can be input into the GRDLN Tag and SCTN Tag fields which are evaluated against the selected gridlines.

Expressions are evaluated against the X and Y gridlines that are automatically selected when generating the support, such expressions can therefore comprise of any of the gridline attributes or any attribute from the hierarchy above (provided that STRING output is maintained).

When the MDS ABA location plan is created, the result is written into the ATEXT attribute of a SLAB. It can contain explicit sequences that have special meanings in Draft, for example '/#' which is interpreted as a newline character and splits the resulting text into two lines.