Editing

the Graphical Properties of Cross-References

When you create more than one instance of a shared or design wide object, cross-references are displayed next to the instances in the diagram by default.

See Cross-References on Objects for an overview of cross-references.

You can use the Project Preferences facility in Capital Project Manager or Capital Systems Modeler to control whether cross-references are displayed for port lists, signals and ports. If you want to override the project preferences related to the display of cross-reference text, you can edit the cross-reference properties for an instance of a object. To do this, right-click on the instance of the object in the diagram and select the Properties option from the pop-up menu. The graphical properties for cross-references are on the Cross-references tab of the Edit Properties facility that is displayed.

The following properties are displayed:

• Justification — where you want the cross-reference text to be displayed in relation to the object.

• Clip — If selected, specifies that the text is clipped at the edge of its bounding box.

• Shrink to fit — If selected, specifies that the font of the text reduces as necessary so that the text fits in its bounding box.

• Overflow — If selected, specifies that the text ignores the edge of its bounding box and flows out of it.

• Wrap text — Specifies whether the text wraps onto multiple lines when it reaches the edge of the text bounding box (selected) or whether the text ignores the bounding box and continues on one line (unselected). When this is selected, if a word is too long to fit on a single line, it is wrapped by character. Mandatory.

• Rotation — rotates the text to change the angle at which it is displayed. By default this is 0 which displays the text running left to right following the horizontal axis: . Enter a different value manually or select a value from the dropdown list, for example, 270 .

• Auto flip — if selected, the text flips automatically so that it is never displayed upside down when it is rotated or flipped. If not selected, a flip or rotation can result in the text being displayed upside down.

• Color — the color of the text. To change the default color, select Over-ride from the drop-down list on the left. This enables the box on the right that you can click to display the Choose Text Color facility.

• Opacity — select one of the following from the drop-down list: Transparent - object lines are visible behind the text.

Opaque - object lines are not visible behind the text.

• Font — select the font used for the text from the drop-down list.

• Height — the height of the text. You select the unit of measure from the drop-down list.

• Value — the cross-reference values. These cannot be edited.

• Limit references per line — the maximum number of cross-references that can be displayed on one line when there are multiple cross-references for an object. To override the value set either in the project preferences or in the applied style set. To set a limit, you must check the Set Limit box (if you check the Override box and leave the Set Limit box unchecked, the references per line will be unlimited for the object).

• Limit Lines per block — the maximum number of lines that can be in a block of cross-references for the instance. If the number of cross-references for the instance is greater than this value, the cross-references are displayed in multiple blocks. If you move a cross-reference in a block to another location in the diagram, all of the cross-references in that block move with it. Cross-references in other blocks for the instance do not move. To override the value set in the project preferences or in the applied style set, you must check the Override box. To set a limit, you must check the Set Limit box (if you check the Override box and leave the Set Limit box unchecked, the references per line will be unlimited for the object).

• Visible — check this box if you want cross-reference text for the instance to be displayed on the diagram. Uncheck this box if you do not want cross-reference text to be displayed.

Parent Topic:

Modifying Objects

Capital Systems Modeler User Guide, 2512.2606

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