This tutorial discusses how to change the Label display on your cabinets in Plan View by using the View Options Properties Sheet which can be accessed in a number of ways.

• View > View Options command button; 
  or
• double clicking on drawing page;
  or
• using the F9 keyboard shortcut.

Label Display

On the Visibilities page (click on image to view) there is a drop menu for Label display bottom right hand corner.

Click to View Options properties

1. None
2. Cabinet ID e.g. 1, 2, 3
3. Cabinet Type e.g. Floor, Tall, Wall
4. Cabinet Description

   Pictorial explanation of Label Display 1 to 4

   

5. Cabinet Code gives you the name in the Catalog (the example shows the Cabinet Picker and CM-Cabinets)

   Pictorial explanation of Code

   

6. User defined i.e. default cabinet name or user defined name (cabinet width included as part of the name) in Library Catalog Manager (see note below).

   This is a very popular option as the cabinet label dynamically changes to show the size of the cabinet as part of the label, as shown.

   Pictorial explanation of User Defined

   In this example below left, we place a Wall Corner cabinet (default 600mm - see LCM note below) and 2 x Wall Standard (default 500mm each).

   Then the Wall Corner cabinet was resized from 600mm to 540mm and 1 x Wall Standard was resized from 500mm to 480mm.

   

   When a cabinet is resized from it's default setting it is indicated by an asterisk (*) even if the cabinet width is not included in the name. As no changes were made to the other Wall Standard, no asterisk is displayed.

   The Cabinet ID has been turned OFF on the Display > Options page of the Drawing Properties [F4].

LCM and User Defined

For User defined to work you need to ensure the catalog, accessed via the Library Catalog Manager, is set up correctly.

The default cabinet width MUST be saved in the catalog as part of the name as illustrated. The label will then automatically update to show the correct width when it is resized, as shown in the above example.

Format Font

Individual Cabinet

You can change the size and appearance of cabinet labels and ID numbers on individual cabinets.

Select the cabinet and use the right click Format Font menu command. As you can see this opens a Font dialog.

Here we have changed the size of the font from 5 to 12 and the colour from black to red. Then simply click OK.

All Items on Drawing

To change or get a common size/font for your cabinet labels and ID numbers, go to the File menu and Prepare > Resize Labels, as shown below. A popup dialog allows you to configure a new font size etc.

The simplest way is to choose Pick new font then click on the Select button. The Font dialog, shown above, allows you to choose the font and size required.