Placement Types supported in Drawing
When you place a surface finish, different placement types are available depending on the owner you selected in the Owner Model group.
Modes supported in drawing, when Drawing is not the owner:
• Automatic
• On Entity
• Normal to Entity
• With Leaders-On Elbow
Modes supported in drawing, when Drawing is the owner:
• Automatic
• On Entity
• Normal to Entity
• With Leaders-On Elbow
• Absolute Coordinates
• Relative Coordinates
• With Leader-Free Point
• Automatic Mode—When you select this mode and move your pointer on a surface, the surface is pre-highlighted, and the leader is automatically attached to that surface after selecting the reference geometry. Automatic mode is set as the default placement type.
Placement types for Automatic mode are Free, With Leaders, and Offset.
◦ Free—Place the surface finish when you left-click the graphics window.
◦ With Leaders—Place the surface finish on the selected reference with a leader. You can select multiple references by using the CTRL key and the left mouse button.
◦ Offset—It offset the surface finish from a reference annotation.
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When you create a surface finish symbol with a leader and attach it to an entity, the leader can be snapped either normal to, or tangent to, the entity.
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• On Entity—Select a reference to place a surface finish on it without a leader. In a drawing, you can use the Select Reference dialog box to place the surface finish.
• Normal to Entity—When you select a reference, the surface finish symbol is placed perpendicular to that reference.
• With Leader-Free Point—In the graphics window, click where you want to attach the leader and place the surface finish. You can adjust this process using configuration option default_placement_surfacefinish.
• With Leaders-On Elbow—Click where you want to place the leader with elbow, and the surface finish.
• Absolute Coordinates—Click the coordinates where you want to place an unattached surface finish.
• Relative Coordinates—Click the coordinates where you want to place an unattached surface finish in relation to another surface finish that has absolute coordinates.