Panel Properties

Specifies the actor name. This name appears in the Collaboration or Assembly tree and is the default tooltip text.

Specifies the tooltip text that appears when you hover over the actor. The default is the actor name, but you can select a different property or meta-property, or type a text string. To type text, which itself can contain properties, select String and use the Tooltip string property.

(Available when Tooltip is String.) Specifies the tooltip text. Type your text, optionally with property keywords. For geometry actors, click to display the Text pane, where you can type multiple lines of text and more easily embed properties.

See Text pane for details on property keywords and the Text pane.

Specifies the actor color.

Specifies the opacity, from 0 (transparent) to 255 (solid).

Places the panel behind all 2D and 3D actors in the scene. To keep the panel on top, clear this property. Use the Depth property to control the order of multiple 2D panels.

Specifies the depth of the panel (if several panels are superposed).

Prevents selection of the actor in the viewport. You can select the actor in the Collaboration pane. You can change property values, but you cannot move the actor by dragging it. Frozen actors are not attracted to magnetic lines. Choose one of the following:

No Freeze	The actor is not frozen.
Freeze	The actor is frozen in Composer Player and Composer.
Freeze only in player	The actor is frozen in Composer Player only (and Composer when Design Mode is off).

Specifies the actor orientation:

• None - Keeps the creation position.
• XYZ - Remains parallel to the world frame.
• XYZ Screen - Remains parallel to the world frame with the size relative to the screen.
• Up - Keeps the vertical axis.

Resizes the vector image.

Specifies the background shape, which does not affect the vector image itself.

	Rectangle	Uses a rectangular corresponding to the bounding box.
	Circumscribed circle	Uses a circle that fully encloses the bounding box.
	Inscribed circle	Uses a circle that is fully enclosed by the bounding box. Use the Scale property to resize the image as necessary.

Displays a background.

Specifies the background color.

Specifies the opacity, from 0 (transparent) to 255 (solid).

Specifies the gradient effect.

Displays the border.

Specifies the border line width, in millimeters.

Specifies the border opacity (between 0 and 255).

Specifies the border color.

Specifies the border type.

Specifies the attachment line style. You can position the attach line by dragging the anchor at either endpoint.

	None(no line to the attach point)
	Model
	Vertex
	Gradient tooltip
	Tooltip style
	Line
	User(three anchors)
	Simple
	Arc tooltip
	Basic

(Available when Attach Type is Line, Vertex, Model, Simple, User, or Arc tooltip.) Specifies the width of the attach line, in millimeters.

(Available when Attach Type is Line, Vertex, Model, Simple, or User.) Specifies the attach color.

(Available for Arc tooltip only.) Specifies the arc shape. For 2D panels only, you can change the curvature by dragging the curvature anchor in the viewport.

Displays an attach border. Not available for all attach types.

Without attach border	With attach border (pink)

Specifies the attach border color.

Specifies the border opacity, between 0 (transparent) and 255 (solid).

Specifies the border line type.

Specifies the attach border width, in millimeters.

Resizes the panel automatically to fit its text. Disable this property to resize manually. In this case, the text is wrapped automatically. The wrap width matches the size of the 2D panel.

Disabled: One anchor at each corner	Enabled: No anchors

Specifies the distance, in millimeters, from the left edge of the paper space.

Specifies the distance, in millimeters, from the top edge of the paper space.

Specifies the panel width, in millimeters.

Specifies the panel height, in millimeters.

Retains the height-to-width ratio when resizing the panel.

Specifies the rate at which the actor flashes, indicating an event is defined:

• None - No flashing.
• 200 ms - Flashes every 200 milliseconds.
• 400 ms - Flashes every 400 milliseconds.
• 800 ms - Flashes every 800 milliseconds.

(Available when Pulse is not None.) Specifies the flashing color.

Defines the action performed when a user clicks an actor or hotspot in the viewport or in vector image output (see the Technical Illustration - Hotspots tab).

To create an event link:

1. Click in the Link field and then click .
2. In the Select a Link dialog box, select a link type in the URL field, specify an appropriate target for that type, and then click OK.

   See Select a Link.

3. To test the event in the viewport, disable Design Mode (status bar) and then click the actor or hotspot.

(Available when the Link property specifies a file:// URL.) Includes the linked file as part of the Composer document. To omit the file, clear this property and ensure that recipients of the document have the linked file in the same absolute path.

Specifies the file path of the texture image.

Specifies how the texture is applied to the panel:

• No Deformation - Retains the image aspect (width-to-height) ratio, adapting the panel size as needed.
• Strech - Adapts the image aspect ratio to fit the panel.
• Repeat - Retains the image size and repeats it multiple times on the panel.

Makes the texture image transparent so actors below it are visible.

Stretches the image, changing its aspect ratio.

Specifies the displayed image size.

Specifies the text alignment: Left, Center, or Right.

Specifies the text color.

Specifies the font family, style, and size of actor text. The default font family is your machine's default font or Arial depending on Use default GUI font for text (Application Preferences - Viewport). The default size is specified by Font size ([Default] Document Properties - Paper Space).

Specifies the text size, in points. The default size is specified by Font size (in [Default] Document Properties - Paper Space).

Specifies the text. To type multiple lines of text or to embed properties, click to display the Text pane. See Text pane.

Specifies the panel width, in millimeters.

Specifies the panel height, in millimeters.

Specifies the image shape, occluding the image when it does not fit.

	None	Uses the rectangular bounding box.
	Auto	Detects the shape automatically by making the dominant image color (typically the background color) transparent.
	User	Uses the Mask path image to define the shape. The darker the color in the mask image, the more the texture image is erased. White in the mask has no effect on the texture image, whereas black completely hides the texture image. This example used the following mask:
	Ellipse	Uses an ellipse.
	Rhombus	Uses a rhombus.

(Available when Shape is User.) Specifies an image file that is overlayed on the panel.

Specifies the shape border color.

Specifies the shape border opacity.

Displays the shape border. Borders are not shown when Shape is User or Auto.

Specifies the line type for the shape border.

Specifies the line width, in millimeters, for the shape border.

Displays a shadow under the 2D panel, giving the actor a 3D effect.

Disabled	Enabled

Lets you choose predefined combinations of shadow properties:

	Bottom right
	Halo
	Bottom
	Bump
	User (Selected automatically when you modify a preset)

Specifies shadow offset, in millimeters, relative to the panel center.

3 mm	15 mm

Specifies shadow position, in degrees (º), relative to the right side of the panel.

0º	45º	135º

Specifies shadow opacity, from 0 (transparent) to 255 (opaque).

50	255

Specifies shadow sharpness, from 0 (no blur) to 20 (high blur).

0	20