Plan Titles

Specify the plan titles.

Option

 

Description

X-Origin and Y-Origin

Specify the point at which the text item must be placed.

Height

Specify the text height in 10ths of a mm.

Angle

Specify the angle at which the text should be rotated. An angle of 0 degrees draws text from left to right, and angles rotate anti-clockwise.

Pen

Select the pen in which to plot the text. Right-click the cell to display the pen selection.

Alignment

Select the text alignment relative to the X and Y origin of the text item.

Text

Enter the text to be drawn. There are some predefined variables that can be entered here. Right-click the cell to select a variable from the popup menu.

An explanation of the available variables is shown below.

Text Style

Select the text style from the list. Text styles are defined in the Text Style Editor.

Available Variables

Variable

 

Description

{SCALE.x}

Plan scale.

{HSCALE.x}

Horizontal scale (Sections only).

{VSCALE.x}

Vertical scale (Sections only).

{START.x}

Start chainage (Sections only).

{END.x}

Stop chainage (Sections only).

{DATE1}

The current date as dd/mm/yyyy.

{DATE2}

The current date as mm/dd/yyyy.

{DATE3}

The current date as yyyy/mm/dd.

{TIME}

The current 24 hour time as hh:mm.

{DRAW_NAME}

The original drawing file name.

{PLAN_NO}

The sheet number if multiple plans are generated during the Plot function..

The .x in the above variables can be substituted with a value that specifies the number of decimals to be displayed. For example, if the drawing scale is 1 : 1500 and the text item is specified as 1 : {SCALE.3}, the text drawn would be 1 : 1500.000.