Control dimension tag content
Tags allow you to display the properties and other related information of the associated building objects in single dimensions and dimension sets. In addition to text or property elements, you can include part count, or select a filter that removes the desired default content from the tag, or control dimension tag content with associativity rules.
You can define the contents of the dimension tags of the building object dimensions on the Tags tab of the dimension properties. During the tag creation process, all building object categories are checked for content availability, and the properties in the first found category that has content are read and displayed in the tag. If you do not want to display tag contents for some building objects, you can create an appropriate exclusion filter for this building object type, or select the desired tag content from the associativity rule list. This means that you can display properties related to any associated object regardless of its type and order in the hierarchy.
The reading order of building object content categories:
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Surface treatment
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Bolt
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Rebar
- Part/Pour object
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Rotation is not available for the middle dimension tags.
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The dimension tags are automatically updated according to model changes, when you update the drawing. If you want to disable the automatic update, you can freeze the drawing or set the advanced option XS_INTELLIGENT_DRAWING_ALLOWED to
FALSE
. This advanced option affects all drawings.
Add tags to dimensions
Example
Below is an example of dimension tags.
Below is an example of an unrotated and rotated dimension tags.
Example: How to filter out dimension tag content
In this example, you will remove from a dimension tag some content that is added in the tag automatically based on the dimension end point locations. First you will create a drawing view filter that you will use for removing the content.
The example below shows a tag that automatically contains the text "CORBEL". You will remove this text.
Control dimension tag content with associativity rules
Dimension tag content can also be controlled using associativity rules. Selecting the right associativity rules helps you to easily select objects that need to be shown in the tags and set up dimension tags, without having to create complex exclusion filters. Only attributes that correspond to the selected objects will be shown in the tags.
This is especially helpful in conflict situations when dimension points might not be associated with the desired objects, because there are other objects in the same dimension point location.
To adjust dimension tag content:
Limitations
There are some hard-coded filtering rules in the dimension tag code that you should keep in mind:
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The main part properties are always filtered out if the dimension is associated to the main part and secondary parts.
Example: You create a dimension that is connected to a number of embeds (secondary parts) and a main part. Then the marks are displayed from the embeds (secondary parts), and the main part is filtered out automatically.
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The attributes of sub-assembly secondary parts are always filtered out. Instead, the attributes of sub-assembly main parts are shown.
Example: You create a dimension that is connected to embeds. All embed sub parts need to be filtered out. In addition, if the embed main parts are not in the array, then they are added to this array.