Set Asset Text Visibility and Height

As the CAD Manager, you use the Set Asset Text Visibility task to change the asset text setting for a selected asset type. Using the Set Asset Text Visibility command, your set the asset text visibility for all CAD specialists working on all drawings You can change the fields that display as asset text and the order in which the fields display.

From this task, you can:

Set which fields display as asset text and the order in which they appear.
Set the height of asset text.

Once you make these changes, any new asset symbols you create will use the new asset text settings.

Setting Asset Text Visibility

When working from the Add-In Manager roles, you can also set asset text visibility from the Smart Client using the System Administration/ARCHIBUS System Administration/Add-In Manager/Set Asset Text Visibility task. From this task, you select an asset table, select fields in the Additional Fields panel and use the Move Up and Move Down action buttons to determine the order in which the selected fields display.

The following procedure describes selecting asset text fields from Web Central.

In the Process Navigator, select System Administration / ARCHIBUS System Administration / CAD and BIM Manager / Set Asset Text Visibility.
From the Asset Types panel, in the Title column, select the asset type for which you want to select asset text.
In the Fields panel, select Edit in the row for a field you want to make visible or invisible. Fields with a 0 in the' Is Asset Text' field are not visible. Fields that have a number greater than 0 are visible. If needed, you can sort the screen by the Is Asset Text field to see which fields are shown as asset text.
In the Edit Asset Text dialog, select a number that indicates the order in which the asset text displays. Select 0 so that the field is not shown.
Click Save.
When you use the Save action, the program will save your visible asset text field selections to the ARCHIBUS data dictionary. The program will then clear the old data dictionary entries so that the next time a user uses one of the asset text commands, the visible asset text fields will be in effect.
See the below section - Updating Drawings with your Asset Text Changes - for more details.

Editing Asset Text Height

The Asset Types table holds other properties defining the behavior of asset text. If you change the visibility to include more or fewer fields, you may want to also change the height of the asset text. For example, if you are now displaying more fields, you may want to display the asset text at a smaller size so that the drawing does not become too busy.

In the Process Navigator, select System Administration / ARCHIBUS System Administration / CAD Manager / Set Asset Text Visibility.
In the Asset Types panel, click Edit in the row for the asset type you want to edit.
In the Edit Asset Type dialog, enter the following:
Asset Text Height (Inches): Enter the default height in inches for this asset type's asset text. This height is used for drawings based on Imperial Units.
Atext Height (cm): Enter the default height in centimeters for this asset type's asset text. This height is used for drawings based on Metric Units.
Click Save.
Your selections are now the default settings for this asset type.

Updating Drawings with your Asset Text Changes

When you edit asset text and save the changes, the program will save your visible asset text field selections to the ARCHIBUS data dictionary. The program will then clear the old data dictionary entries so that the next time a user uses one of the asset text commands, the visible asset text fields will be in effect.

Note that Asset text visibility is a per-schema setting; that is, it affects all users and all drawings. If you change the visible asset text fields, you will need to recatalog each drawing for the asset text field setting to take effect.

Also note, however, that the asset text visibility affects only the text that appears in the AutoCAD DWG file itself. The setting does not affect the text labels that appear in Web Central in the drawing control or in paginated reports, as the program generates these text labels dynamically