Outside - View Annotations

The View Annotation page provides options for you to add values for view information such as elevation, coordinates and match-line information.

Accessed by selecting the Outside > View Annotations node in the Settings interface.

Define the properties per the fields described below and Save the changes.

The Close icon closes the Project Settings interface, so make sure your changes are saved. You will be prompted to save them it you haven't already.

The Load Defaults icon in the main Settings interface will return the settings of the options page to their original values.

Setting

Description

View Information

The View Information value is defined in the Match Line and View Information tab of the View Definition page.

If no value is defined, then the view elevation will be written in the following format:

(EL.)+ number + (~) + (EL.) + (number)

Color: Click the icon and select a color from Color Table for the label text.
Text Style: Select a text type for the label from the drop down list. You can click the "..." option at the bottom of the list to display the Microstation Text Styles dialog allowing you to modify the text styles if desired.
Height: Enter a text height into the field.
A: This value defines the gap distance from the view frame.
Justification: Select the text justification from the list (Left, Center, Right)

Matchline Information Data

Allows you to format the match line information as defined in the Match Line and View Information tab in the Create View page:

The following fields are available to define the format for the Match Line Data:

Color: Click the icon and select a color from Color Table for the label text.
Text Style: Select a text type for the label from the drop down list. You can click the "..." option at the bottom of the list to display the Microstation Text Styles dialog allowing you to modify the text styles if desired.
Height: Enter a text height into the field.
A: This value defines the gap distance from the view frame.
Justification: Select a justification from the list (Left, Center, Right) for the corresponding positions. (See the above image)

View Coordinates

It enables you to add the view coordinates at the specified position. This coordinate comes from the design database automatically.

Color: Click the icon and select a color from Color Table for the label text.
Text Style: Select a text type for the label from the drop down list. You can click the "..." option at the bottom of the list to display the Microstation Text Styles dialog allowing you to modify the text styles if desired.
Height: Enter a text height into the field.
Box Out: If you enable this option, the coordinates box will be displayed.

Position: Three positions are available for the coordinates. (See Image below.)

All	TopLeft/BottomRight	BottomLeft/TopRight

Use Grid Line for Equipment

When enabled, this option lets the user dimension Equipment from grid lines, overriding the default workflow of referencing match lines for dimensioning. If there are no grid lines defined in the View Arrangement Definition (VAD) file then the default workflow is used.

Note: Note that the reference point on equipment is center of the cell unless overwritten in OpenPlant Modeler via the Place Note command.

All Horizontal Orientation

When this is enabled, all of the outside annotations are oriented horizontally parallel to the border the drawing.

By default this option is disabled which means the OpenPlant Orthographics Manager will automatically determine the orientation of the outside annotations according to amount of space available.