Annotation

Text Styles are used to define annotation symbology for all OpenComms features when extracted in a spatial session or when in a DGN persistent project.When text styles are defined in the project DGNLIB, they can be imported into the project DGN seed file and will be used when the features are extracted. When changes are made in the project’s TextStyles.dgnlib file, they will be reflected in the project DGN seed file.

Copper Annotation Setup

From the OpenComms menu select File > OpenComms Settings > OSP Common>Annotation:
The Annotation dialog box opens.
Select a text style and a weight for each of the Copper features available from the Type drop-down list.
Click Update to update the database.

Note: OpenComms feature annotation text style definitions come by default in the delivered OpenComms DGN seed files. A user can use the delivered text style names or choose to create new text style definitions to be used and assigned to OpenComms features.

Creating a Text Style

From the Map or Drawing menu, select the Annotate tab and hover over the dropdown in the lower right corner of the Text section:
Click the Text Styles icon to open the Text Styles dialog:
From the menu bar of the Text Styles dialog, choose Style > New or from the icon bar of the Text Styles dialog, click New. A new Untitled style appears in the Text Styles list.

Note: The settings for the new style are taken from the active settings. To use another text style as a template, activate it first, then create a new style; or make a copy.
Key in the name for the new text style and press <Enter>.
The new text style name appears in the Text Styles list.
From the Text Styles dialog, choose Styles > Save.
The new text style is saved.

Note: The new text style is not automatically activated; you must choose the new text style, right click, and activate it before it is used for text placement.