Datasheet

IT’S ALL ABOUT STYLE

Forced Insertion makes more sense in other objects and will be explored further. This feature

essentially allows you to dictate the insertion point of a label on the basis of the object being

labeled.

Plan Readable text maintains the up direction in spite of view rotation. This tends to be the

“Ooooh, nice” feature that sets users to smiling. Rotating a hundred labels is a tedious, thankless

task, and this handles it with one click.

Readability Bias is the angle at which readability kicks in. This angle is measured from the

zero degree of the X axis that is common to AutoCAD angle measurements. When a piece of

text goes past the readable bias angle, the text spins to maintain vertical orientation, as shown

in Figure 1.16. Note how the label on the far left has rotated to accommodate the rotation past

110 degrees, the default bias angle.

Flip Anchors With Text determines how the text flips. Most users find that setting this to False

gives the best results, but sometimes flipping an anchor point will position text as needed. We’ll

talk more about anchor points on the Layout tab.

Switch to the Layout tab. Again, there’s a whole lot going on here, so we’ll work through the

options, and then make changes. As shown in Figure 1.17, each component of the label has a whole

host of options.

Figure 1.16

Examples of plan-

readable text

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