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Enhanced Options for View Labels

Auxiliary Views and Drawing Sheet

You can set auxiliary views and section views to be orthographically aligned to the drawing sheet.

Right-click the drawing view and click Align Drawing View > Horizontal to Sheet Clockwise or Horizontal to Sheet Counterclockwise.

Before being aligned to sheet After being aligned to sheet clockwise
auxiliary_view_before_align.png auxiliary_view_after_align.png

Tags in View Labels

You can use tags to add content to drawing view labels.

To edit a view label using tags, clear Manual view label in the Note PropertyManager, right-click the view label and click Edit Text in Window.

The tags within the label display their value as assigned from Document Properties. You can delete the tags and use the tag buttons or type in your own text.

View Label Font Control

View label font control apply to all view types.

Labels for detail, auxiliary, other and orthographic views have the same font control as section view does. You can also assign fonts to the individual label elements.



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