T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Fundamentals. Two-Dimensional Design
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Upwards” parameter; the third figure illustrates the case with the disabled option “Equivalent shelves”; in the
case of the fourth figure, the “Leader Height” parameter is set to the value 5.
Leader Note Parameters Dialog
Leader note parameters can also be defined in the parameters dialog called by the automenu option:
Set Leader Note Parameters
The parameters on the tabs of this dialog duplicate the parameters in the properties window. Besides that, the
parameters dialog contains several additional parameters. First of all, those are the system-wide parameters:
level, layer, priority and color. Also, there is an additional tab in the parameters dialog that contains font
settings. There, you can define the necessary font parameters that will be used to display the leader text.
The leader note parameters dialog can also be called in the command-waiting mode from a leader's
context menu (accessible by ). This facilitates quick modification of a leader note's parameters
without calling the editing command.
Defining Default Parameters
The default parameters that will be applied to all newly created leader notes can be defined in several ways.
First of all, those can be defined using the parameters dialog (the option ). To do that, call the dialog
before starting a leader note creation. The parameters defined in it will be copied into the parameters of each
newly created leader note.
Besides that, you can save parameters of any leader note being created (or edited) as the default parameters,
if you click the button in the command's properties window.
User's Defined Leader Notes
T-FLEX CAD allows a user to make his own types of notes, more precisely – types for the leaders of notes.
User's defined leader notes are created as standard parametric fragments in the folder “…\\T-FLEX\T-
FLEX CAD\Libraries\System\Leader Symbols” (library “Leader Symbols”).
In the dialog of the leader notes properties, the files located in the given folder are added as icons to the list
of the accessible types of the leader. Upon creating the leader note, location of the fragment-leader image is
determined by the fixing vector which must exist in the fragment model.
For controlling parameters of the user's leader note, the dialog of the fragment variables or the user's dialog
(if it was created in the fragment) will be used. To call the dialog of the fragment variables (or the user's
dialog), use the special button which appears in the dialog of the leader note properties or call the
command “Annotation Properties…” in the context menu of the leader note that utilizes the user's leader
type.