In this exercise, you will create a label style that displays user-defined property information for a point.
This exercise continues from
Exercise 1: Creating User-Defined Properties.
Create a label style that displays user-defined property information
- Open
Points-4b.dwg, which is located in the
tutorials drawings folder.
- In
Toolspace, on the
Settings tab, expand the
Point collection. Expand the
Label Styles collection.
- Under
Label Styles, right-click
Standard. Click
.
- In the
Label Style Composer, on the
Information tab, for
Name, enter
Manhole UDP.
- On the
Layout tab, in the
Preview list on the upper right side of the tab, select
Point Label Style.
Now, any edits you make to the point label style will be displayed in the preview pane.
- Click
to create a text component for the label.
- For the new text component, specify the following parameters:
- Name:
Invert In
- Anchor Component:
Point Description
- Anchor Point:
Bottom Left
-
Attachment (under
Text):
Top Left
- Under
Text, for
Contents, click the default value. Click
.
- In the
Text Component Editor – Contents dialog box, on the
Properties tab, specify the following parameters:
- Properties:
MH_Pipe In Invert
- Precision:
0.01
- Click
.
- In the text editing window, delete the text “Label Text” from the label. Enter
Invert In: before the property field, which is enclosed in angle brackets(<>). The text in the editor should look like this:
- Click
OK.
-
In the preview pane, your label should look like this:
- Click
OK.
To continue this tutorial, go to
Exercise 3: Assigning User-Defined Properties to Points.