Label style

Several modules

Rooms, Surfaces, Stories

Smart Symbols

Landscaping

Urban Planning

Object Manager

You can use Label Style to create what is known as a label style. Besides text, a label style may include all kinds of design elements (e.g., lines, circles etc.). You can also associate label styles with attributes such as occupancy or floor area.

Using formulas, you can make the type of attribute dependent on specific values. For instance, you might want the label to include text if the room exceeds a certain height.

Note: The attributes serve as placeholders: the actual values of the architectural element are only calculated and displayed in the label when the label style is used to label an architectural element.

In the same way as smart symbols, a label style can consist of a number of foils that are shown or hidden (depending on the reference scale or drawing type). This way, the level of detail in a label can thus be higher at 1:50 than at 1:100.

The drawing type defines how elements are displayed on screen and in the printout. The display of the elements varies depending on the selected drawing type. Requirements: the format properties are taken from the layer (in a fixed manner) and the use of line styles is selected. In document mode, drawing types can be selected in the status bar, and in the Layout module, you can make a selection when you place layout elements.

The status bar is the bottom line in the Allplan application window. Different types of information are displayed in the status bar.

Tip: Please work through the examples below prior to making your own label styles.

Note: If you are creating or modifying titles blocks as label styles, please read the Notes on label styles in the Layout module.

Modifying label styles

Using label styles for labeling

Moving or replacing labels with label styles

Applying blanking to label styles

To define a label style

1. Click Label Style (How).
   

   Activate Label Style in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: Create Bonus Tools Smart Symbols

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

   Templates: Reports, Legends, Labels

   Smart Symbols

   Rooms, Surfaces, Stories

   Landscaping

   Urban Planning

   Object Manager

   • Configuration: Architecture Rooms flyout
2. To define the placeholders, either click
   • Attribute to define attributes or
   • Formula to create a formula.

     Tip: Prior to placing the attribute and/or formula you can change the font and define text parameters.

     Tip: You can also copy attributes that you require a number of times (cf. step 3).

3. Arrange the elements of the label style as they are to be displayed later. Please note the following:
   • Make sure that the required attributes and formulas are actually available for each foil you want to define. In other words, a separate set of attributes and formulas must be available for each foil.
   • You can use Modify in the input options to modify the label style's elements you have already placed before you define and save the label style itself. You can also move and delete elements.
   • You can quit the Label Style tool temporarily by pressing ESC and add design entities to the label style before you define and save it. You can also copy attributes you require a number of times.
   • To check how the label style will look when you are finished, you should specify boundary conditions for the individual foils before you define them. For example, you can define the scale range within which a foil is displayed using Reference Scale (How) or you can specify that the foils change with the drawing type.
     

     Activate Reference Scale in one of the following ways

     • Menu bar: View

     Tip: entering the name for the formula later

4. Defining the foils that go to make up the label style
   • Defining a label style with one foil (independent of reference scale or drawing type)
   • Defining a label style with several foils (dependent on the reference scale or drawing type) that changes with the reference scale or drawing type
5. In the Save Data dialog box, specify the Folder (Office, Private, Project, External path), Subfolder and Name, and save the label style.

Examples

Label style with floor area

Label style for balcony (with half the base area)

Label style for working drawing (with two foils for different scales)

Label style with one foil for all scale ranges