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6 On the shortcut menu, click Link and Label Settings ➤ Create
Freestanding Labels.
7 From the Data View menu, choose Link.
8 Select an area in the AutoCAD drawing to insert the label.
To create a link to an object with an attached label
1 In the dbConnect Manager, open a table that has at least one link
template and one label template defined.
2 In the Data View window, select a link template from the Link Template
list.
3 In the Data View window, select a label template from the Label Template
list.
4 Select the record that you want to link from the Data View window.
5 From the Data View menu, choose
Link and Label Settings ➤ Create
Attached Labels.
6 From the Data View menu, choose Link.
7 Select an object or objects in the AutoCAD drawing that you want the
label associated with.
8 Press
ENTER.
To edit a label template
1 In the dbConnect Manager, in the tree view, right-click a label template to
edit.
2 On the shortcut menu, click Edit.
3 In the Label Template dialog box make the changes you want as described
in “To create a label template” on page 750.
4 Click OK.
To specify label formatting
1 Create a new label template as described in “To create a label template” on
page 750.
2 In the Label Template dialog box, select text formatting options using the
Character and Properties tabs, as described in
MTEXT in the Command Ref-
erence.
3 Choose the Label Offset tab.