Place model attributes

You can incorporate information about your model in the model window.

Procedure

  1. Activate the Insert tab bar.
  2. Click Insert model attribute Model attributes.
  3. Click the position in the model window where you want to place the model attribute. The Model attribute properties dialog opens.
  4. In the Contents box, select the model attribute you want to place. If required, select the font format that is to be used to output the model attribute.
  5. Select the text alignment.
  6. To display the model attribute highlighted in yellow, enable the As a comment check box.
  7. If you want to display the name of the model attribute, enable the With attribute name check box.
  8. Enable the As a symbol check box if you want to display attributes that can be shown as a symbol (for example, the Status (CMA) attribute) as symbols. The check box is enabled only if the selected attribute can be displayed as a symbol.
  9. Click OK.
  10. If the selected attribute has not been specified yet you will be asked if you want to do so. If you click Yes the attributes page will open and you can enter the required value.

The model attribute is inserted.

You can also drag attributes from the Attributes area of the Properties bar into the model. To do this, click a value in the bar and, while holding the left mouse button down, drag the value to the relevant position in the model. Only attributes of the Boolean type cannot be placed in this manner.

See also

Place attributes

Format model attributes

How to format texts of objects