Text-Based Annotations and Text Properties

Text based annotations are defined to be any element with a text component other than dimensions.

The following table outlines the specific mappings for text-based annotations and annotation properties:

Note: Not transferred (*) designates that the element or property is not supported in the current release of the V5 Interactive Drafting product.

CADAM Drafting Element/Property

Interactive Drafting Element/Property

Comments
Character encoding:    

Unicode

 Unicode Both CADAM Drafting and Interactive Drafting use the Unicode standard for character encoding. Therefore, all characters with standard Unicode character codes are transferred without any mapping. There are a small number of characters (specifically, engineering symbols such as & , 6 ) that don't have standard Unicode character codes. In these cases, the character code is mapped from the CADAM Drafting defined Unicode character code to the Interactive drafting defined Unicode character code.
Text based Annotations:    

Arrow with text

 Text with leader The text with leader functionality provided with the Interactive Drafting product is slightly different from CADAM Drafting. Specifically, with CADAM Drafting the user can define the length of the leader segment adjacent to the text. With Interactive drafting, the length of this segment is fixed. Therefore, the leader head position and the text position will transfer as it exists in the CADAM Drafting model, but the leader segments may not be visually the same.

Balloon

 Circle and text A CADAM Drafting balloon is transferred to a circle and a text element (rather than a balloon) because the functionality and text capabilities of a CADAM Drafting balloon are closer to an Interactive Drafting text element.  If the balloon has a CADAM arrow attached, the arrow is transferred as a separate element.

Delta

 Lines, arcs, and text A CADAM Drafting delta is transferred to lines, arcs, and a text element as this best simulated the visual appearence of the CADAM delta symbol.  If the delta has an arrow attached, the arrow is transferred as a separate element.

Text

 Text and/or GD&T In general, CADAM Drafting text elements are transferred to text elements in Interactive Drafting. As Interactive Drafting supports an intelligent GD&T element, the transfer will create a GD&T element when the CADAM Drafting string matches the characteristics of a standard GD&T. Note that a CADAM Drafting string with plain text and GD&T constructs may be transferred to a set of text elements and a set of GD&T elements. If multiple text and/or GD&T elements are create, they will be associated to each other.

Text on a curve

 Text The text is transferred as individual letters.

Textline

 Text and lines The text and lines are not associated after the transfer.
Text string properties:    

Character height

 Font size Note: CADAM Drafting supports negative character height, which is not supported by Interactive Drafting. Therefore, text with a negative character height will be transferred with the font size set to the absolute value of the character height.

Character width

 Character width Although the CATIA-CADAM Interface product sets this property, it is not accessible to an Interactive Drafting user in the current release.

Note: CADAM Drafting supports negative character width, which is not supported by Interactive Drafting. Therefore, text with a negative character width will be transferred with the character width set to the absolute value of the CADAM Drafting character width.

Fill justification

 Not transferred (*)  

Horizontal spacing

 Character spacing Although the CATIA-CADAM Interface product sets this property, it is not accessible to an Interactive Drafting user in the current release.

Note: CADAM Drafting supports negative horizontal spacing, which is not supported by Interactive Drafting. Therefore, text with a negative horizontal spacing will be transferred with the character spacing set to the absolute value of horizontal spacing.

Justification

 Justification  

Line Weight

 Plain text/bold The line weight property does not exist for text in the Interactive Drafting product. Therefore, any CADAM Drafting text with non-zero line weight is transferred to "bold" text in Interactive Drafting.

Scale/no scale flag

 Not transferred (*) This property does not affect the display of the text. With the current release of Interactive Drafting, all text behaves similar to "no scale".

Slant

 Slant Although the CATIA-CADAM Interface product sets this property, it is not accessible to an Interactive Drafting user in the current release.

Text boxes defined on slanted text display slanted with the CADAM Drafting product. The Interactive Drafting product will display the text characters slanted, but the text box will not display slanted.

Span

 Text box width  

Text angle

 Text orientation  

Text direction

 Not transferred (*)  

Text mirror

 Not transferred (*)  

Text position

 Text anchor point CADAM Drafting supports 5 horizontal by 5 vertical positions. Interactive Drafting supports 3 horizontal by 3 vertical positions. The transfer maps the CADAM Drafting position to the closest Interactive drafting anchor point.

Turn/no turn flag

 Orientation association of the text. If the property is set to "no turn", the text is transferred with its orientation associated to the drawing Sheet. In this case, the text will not rotate if the view is rotated. If this property is set to "turn", the text is transferred with its orientation associated to the view. In this case, the text will rotate if the view is rotated.

Vertical spacing

 Interline spacing Although the CATIA-CADAM Interface product sets this property, it is not accessible to an Interactive Drafting user in the current release.

Note: CADAM Drafting supports negative vertical spacing, which is not supported by Interactive Drafting. Therefore, text with a negative vertical spacing will be transferred with the interline spacing set to the absolute value of the vertical spacing.
Substring properties:    

Fractional display

 Numerator followed by denominator The current release of Interactive Drafting does not support a numerator over denominator display. Therefore the fraction will be displayed as numerator/denominator.

Full, half, and 3/4 superscripting and subscripting

 Superscripting and subscripting The Interactive Drafting product does not support multiple lines or "stacked" super/subscripting. Text with 2 lines of super/subscripting will be transferred with the first "stacked" line transferred to superscript followed by the second "stacked" line as subscript. If a string has more than 2 stacked lines, the third and subsequent lines will be transferred as new lines in text string.

Substring box

 Substring box The CADAM Drafting product supports three substring box displays. The Interactive Drafting product supports two substring box displays.  The CADAM large and medium substring box are transferred to the Interactive Drafting large substring box display.  The CADAM small substring box is transferred to the Interactive Drafting small substring box display.   Note that CADAM can mix all three substring box displays within one string.   For Interactive Drafting, all substring boxes within a string must be the same size.  Therefore, if a CADAM string has different size substring boxes, all will be transferred as the size of the first substring box encountered in the string.  In addition, the sizes of the substring boxes are not identical between CADAM Drafting and Interactive Drafting.  Therefore, the text may have a slightly different overall size after the transfer.

Substring lozenge

 Substring lozenge  

Underscore/overscore

 Underline/overline