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Auto increment text

 

 

 

 

 

Purpose:

 

To create text annotations incrementing a starting numeric value or letter.  Annotation prefix and suffix and text settings can be specified.

 

Fig. 1: Auto incrementing annotation numeration settings.

 

1.      Mode: Check to use letters or numbers for annotations.

2.      Starting number: Type number where the numeration will begin. Value can have decimal places.

3.      Numeric increment: Type increment value for numeric annotations. Value can have decimal places.

4.      Decimal places: Rounding value for numeric annotations.

5.      Starting letter: Initial letter from which the annotations will begin.

6.      Prefix: Type text to be included before each annotation.

7.      Suffix: Type text to be appended to each text annotation.

8.      Text size: Type text size for auto incrementing annotations.

9.      Distance selector button: Click to set text size by selecting distance between two points in drawing.

10.   Units: Check if text size will be in drawing units or in plotting units according to corresponding layout scale.

 

          

Fig. 2: Auto incrementing annotation text settings

 

1.      Text settings: Select layer, color style and font for auto incrementing annotations.

2.      Annotative: Check if the total sum of lengths annotation height will change when the corresponding layout scale is modified.

3.      Specify text rotation in drawing: Check if text rotation will be specified every time an annotation is inserted.

4.      Text rotation: Type default text rotation for auto incrementing annotation.

5.      Angle selector button: Click to select angle selecting two points in drawing to set text rotation angle.

 

Comments:

 

·         You can use this command to annotate parking lots, lot numbers, space id tags, or any annotation that have to be sequentially incremented or decremented.

·         If you specify a negative numeric increment value the numeric annotation will be decremented.

 

 

 

 


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