Drawing Label Styles in Vectorworks 2021
In Vectorworks 2021, you now have control over your drawing labels. In previous versions, you could control a few limited options but you couldn't control everything. 2021 allows you to create drawing label styles. These styles mean that you can choose what information is on the label, what size the label is, what fonts you're using, even where the lines are and what line weights are.
Out of the box, Vectorworks has some premade drawing label styles. I found that the easiest way to create my own drawing label style was to start with one of the standard Vectorworks ones and then edit it.
- Start by placing a selecting a standard Vectorworks drawing label.
- Go to the Object Info palette.
- Click on the Style pop-up menu
- Choose Edit Style...
This will open a dialog box so that you can choose what to do with the style.
- Click on the Edit Drawing Label Layout... button.
This is a special editing area at one-to-one scale for you to edit your drawing label style. In this area you can change the line weights, fonts, colours, and positions of objects.
In this image, I have added extra text and moved the locations of the drawing number. I want this label to show the back-reference location of the detail. This would be the section or drawing that had the original detail reference.
Once I have the text and lines in the correct location, I can edit the text label field.
- Select the required text.
- Go to the Object Info palette.
- Click on the Define Drawing Label Field...
This opens a dialog box for you to define the connections for the text.
- Click on the Parameter Name pop-up.
- Select the required parameter (the information you want).
- Click on the Add to Definition button.
- Click on the OK button
- When you have finished your editing, click on the Exit Drawing Label Layout button at the top-right go your screen.
- Click on the OK button to return to your drawing.
- Create a series of your favourite drawing labels and store them in you library file.
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