Text-Based Annotations and Text Properties

This table show how V5 Drafting text based annotations and text properties are interpreted in CADAM.  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:

Interactive Drafting Element/Property

CADAM 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 Interactive Drafting defined Unicode character code to the CADAM Drafting defined Unicode character code.
Text based Annotations:    

Balloon

Not transferred  

Datum Feature

Not transferred  

Datum Target

Not transferred  

GD&T

Not transferred  

Roughness symbol

Not transferred  

Text with leader

Arrow with text  

Text

Text  

Welding symbol

Not transferred  
Text string properties:    

Font size

Character height  

Italics

Not transferred  

Justification

Justification  

Plain text/bold

Always transferred as plain text  

Text box width

Not transferred  

Text orientation

Text angle  

Text anchor point

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

Superscripting and subscripting

Not transferred  

Substring box

Not transferred  

Substring lozenge

Not transferred  

Underscore/overscore

Not transferred