Edit Label Window

Underline: You can use this button to underline one or more words or letters in the Label text.

Strikethrough: You can use this button to strikethrough one or more words or letters in the Label text.

Justification: Left or Center or Right. Select one or more lines of text, then press the appropriate button to apply the justification that you want.

Each line in multi-line Label text can have a different justification. Justification has no effect on dimension label text that consists of a single line since the bounding box is the length and maximum character height of that single line.

Pen: 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 . This only affects the dimension label , not the dimension lines or legs. The selected pen sets the on-screen display color of primary dimension labels.

Insert/Edit Hyperlink: You can select one or more words and create a hyperlink (using the icon) to a PDF within the project or an external URL. If the linked PDF is located in the same folder, the hyperlink will open the corresponding sheet or detail.

Remove Hyperlink: Select the word or characters containing the hyperlink, then select the icon to remove it.

Font family: Any font that is listed can be selected for the primary dimension Label text .

Note: The fonts listed here are the TrueType fonts installed on your Widows operating system.

Font style: The style (Bold, Bold Italic, Italic, or Regular) of the selected Font. Different fonts may have different styles available to them.

Font size: The height (in millimeters) that make up the dimension label. This value is independent of the Drawing scale of your current drawing.

All characters are the same aspect ratio :

Font aspect ratio: The width/height of the characters that make up the dimension label.

All characters are the same size:

Note: A ratio of 0.6 renders the selected font at its native width. A ratio larger than 0.6 stretches the font, while a ratio less than 0.6 compacts the font.

Rotation: A positive or negative number of degrees (from -360 to 360). A positive number of degrees rotates the label counterclockwise, while a negative number of degrees rotates the label clockwise.

Label text: Any text stringup to 1024 alpha/numeric characters. By default, the character string of the last-added or last-edited label is automatically entered to this field during an Label Add operation .

Note: Special characters can be added as Label text using Latin 1 characters. Hold down the Alt key and type in the number, or copy and paste from the Character Map that can be launched from your operating system's Accessories menu.

Key Bindings for Text Entry (when the cursor is in the text-entry area)
key	action bound to key
Alt + num	inserts characters 0160 to 0255
Enter	creates a line break
Ctrl +a	selects all text
Ctr+Enter	executes OK
Ctr+c *	copies selected text
Ctrl+x *	cuts selected text
Ctrl+v *	pastes cut or copied text
Tab	moves focus to next widget
Esc	executes Cancel
* = applies to all text entry fields.

Examples of Character Codes
Alt+num [num lock]	character	description
0176	°	degrees
0177	±	plus/minus
0188	¼	one fourth
0247	÷	division sign
0248	ø	diameter
Tip: For a complete list, click here , or see the Character Map on your operating system's Accessories menu.

For a truetype font, Label text shows the font at its native aspect ( Aspect ratio = 0.6).

For the SDS2 font, Label text shows a proxy font. The Pen does not affect the thickness of this proxy font, but will affect the thickness of the SDS2 font on the printed drawing.

Layer: The drawing layer that the label you are adding or editing is placed onto when you press OK to close this window. If that layer happens to be hidden (not marked Show), the label disappears after the first update.

Defaults: For an Label Add operation, the default selection ( ) will be the layer that was selected on the Layer Panel before you began the operation. For an Edit Label operation, the default selection is the layer that the graphic object is currently on.

Detail View ID: The ID number of the Detail View this dimension is attached to.

Note: If the related detail view is removed, this dimension is also removed.

Material designation type: The option is visible when you add a Material Callout for a material.

For a material callout, the settings are Pcmk only or Mtrl type & pcmk or Mtrl type, size & pcmk. The default choice is the Default designation for user added material callout specified at Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Member and Material Piecemarking > the Submaterial tab..

Pcmk only Mtrl type & pcmk Mtrl type, size & pcmk

Bolt designation type: The option is visible when you add a Material Callout for a bolt. It is invisible (not available) for Edit Label operations.

For a bolt callout, the settings are Bolt type only or Bolt size and type. The default choice is the Default designation for user added bolt callout specified at Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Member and Material Piecemarking > the Submaterial tab. Another related option is Bolt callout at Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Detailing > Bolt Detailing Settings .

Bolt type only Bolt size and type

Origin: Upper left or Upper center or Upper right or Left center or Center or Right center or Lower left or Lower center or Lower right . The selected radio button is highlighted blue and chooses an origin point for the label.

The origin ( o ) of a label is highlighted along with the label when the label is selected.

Tip: Instead of using Origin to reposition a label, you can Shift -drag the label to a new position.

Breaks lines: or . The setup options Break material lines at label interference or Break dimension lines at label interference must be checked for this option to apply.

Example of a label breaking a line :

If this box is checked ( ), this label will break a line (for which Breakable is checked), a polygon line (for which Breakable is checked), or a dimension leg (for which Breakable dimension leg(s) is checked) at the location where that line, polygon line or dimension leg intersects this label.

If the box is not checked ( ), lines, polygon lines or dimension legs will not be broken when they intersect this label.

Border: None or Rectangle or Cloud or Slot .

Note: A border is part of the label, not an object that is distinct from the label. This means, for example, that you cannot select cloud borders with the Selection Filter set to Clouds. Nor can you select a rectangular border with the Selection Filter set to Lines. Unless you Explode the label, the label and its border are always selected together.

Border pen: 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 .

Border line style: A line type . This applies when Border is Rectangle or Cloud or Slot.

These line styles are equivalent to the dash patterns that you can select to be the Line type for a line. They set the dash pattern for the border aound the Rectangle or Cloud or Slot that is selected to be the Border of the label.

Border gap: A distance. In the example below, the gap is measured using Add Dimension .

The position of these form buttons on the screen tells you what settings they apply to. Click here for more information. You can Copy the settings on this screen, then Paste those settings to a different screen of the same type. You can Save the settings on this screen to a global folder that is used by your current version of SDS2. Give the file a name that will help other users identify its purpose. You can Load a saved file to replace the settings on this screen with the settings that are stored in the file you select. When editing multiple screens at the same time, Paste and Load replace mixed entries to a single field with a single entry. Copy and Save ignore fields with mixed entries, treating them as if they have no entry or do not exist.

Note: When you select the Load dropdown, it lists the forms stored in the corresponding settings folder.

OK (or the Enter key) closes this screen and applies the settings.

Cancel (or the Esc key) closes this screen without saving any changes.

Reset undoes all changes made to this screen since you first opened it. The screen remains open.