Text

 

 

 

 

The Text command allows you to insert text into the title block.

 

You can insert directly created text in the "Text" field. Select an existing text parameter from the drop-down list or create a page text (folio).

 

Advanced options in this dialog provide access to the following text:

 

 

Creation Stages:

 

Click the icon or select the Sketch > Text... command from the drop-down menu of a draft document.

 

  1. Select General to enter a text which appears in each title block of the document or select Page to enter the page (n° of page/Total number of pages). You can also select the Actual date to add the date in the title block or Workflow to add workflow parameters.

  2. Enter the text or specify a type of parameter to use. For the page text, click the Current page button, then Number of pages. You can add a separator.

  3. Position the text.

  4. Validate the creation of text.

 

 

A text parameter that already exists in the document can be directly accessed from the drop-down menu of the text creation command.

In order to reduce the document, you will not find it in the "Document parameter" list.

 

 

  • This command only inserts texts in a title block. As the title block is part of the background, the views are not visible.

  • General text will appear in the title block of each page. Page text can change depending on the page.

  • To make text appear only in the page's title block, you must change the attributes of the title block.

 

 

Available options:

 

 

Select the text style to use here: normal text style (default style) or customized text style.

 

Allows to define lines thicknesses of the text.

  • Symbol lines allows to define the text thickness.

  • Leader lines allows to define the leader line thickness.

 

Modifications:

 

To modify an existing text, just select it with a right button and select the Edit command.