Std-Annotation Configuration Options
Std-Annotations behavior
  • EXPAND_DIRECTION_2D
    Definition of the general building direction for the Std-Annotation stack (drawing mode). Building origin is defined within each Std-Annotation set and refers to the drawing origin (bottom left corner)
    • bottom-up — Annotation stack is build from bottom up (default)
    • top-down — Annotation stack is build from top down.
  • STACKING_DIRECTION
    Defines the start point and direction for the creation of the Std-Annotation symbol stack in solid mode. This option sets a global default, that can optionally be overwritten by each Std-Annotation set independently.
    • TOP_LEFT_TO_BOTTOM_LEFT (default)
    • BOTTOM_LEFT_TO_TOP_LEFT
  • SYMBOL_TO_SYMBOL_SPACING_HORIZONTAL
    3D-Mode: Horizontal offset between the symbol stacks.
    • Graphics window pixels (default: 4)
  • SYMBOL_TO_SYMBOL_SPACING_VERTICAL
    3D-Mode: Vertical offset between the symbols of the same stack.
    • Graphics window pixels (default: 4)
  • BORDER_TO_SYMBOL_STACK_SPACING_HORIZONTAL
    3D-Mode: Offset of the first stack to the horizontal border of the graphical area.
    • Graphics window pixels (default: 30)
  • BORDER_TO_SYMBOL_STACK_SPACING_VERTICAL
    3D-Mode: Offset of the first stack to the vertical border of the graphical area.
    • Graphics window pixels (default: 30)
  • SYMBOL_STACK_BREAK_VERTICAL
    3D-Mode: Vertical threshold at which the stack gets wrapped into a new stack.
    • Graphics window pixels (default: —1, by default the vertical border of the graphical area is used)
 
User dialog look & feel
  • COLOR_MANDATORY
    Background color for the header line of mandatory entries within the user dialog. Click into the colored area to open the RGB dialog to change the color.
    • Image
  • COLOR_OPTIONAL
    Choose color for the header line of optional entries within the UI. Click into the colored area to open the RGB dialog to change the color.
    • Image
  • COLOR_REQUIRED
    Choose color for the header line of required entries within the UI. Click into the colored area to open the RGB dialog to change the color.
    • Image
  • OPTIONMENU_DEFAULT_COLOR
    Choose background color for the area of the optionmenu for Std-Annotation sets. Click into the colored area to open the RGB dialog to change the color.
    • Image
  • STD_ANNO_DEFAULT_SASH_POSITION
    Defines the percentage of the display space for the ‘preview’ area of the Std-Annotations user dialog. ‘0’ allows for the minimum preview space. ‘100’ provides the maximum preview space.
    • Integer value (0 — 100)
 
User dialog settings and permissions
  • ENABLE_MARGIN
    Enable user to type in an offset value to the next symbol within the Std-Annotation set. Values correspond to drawing units.
    Image
    • YES — enable (default)
    • NO — disable
  • ENABLE SEPARARTOR
    Enable user to display a separator symbol between the entities of the Std-Annotation set. The symbol used is defined by the config option SEPARATOR_SYMBOL.
    Image
    • YES — enable (default)
    • NO — disable
  • SEPARATOR_SYMBOL
    Define the name of the separator symbol within folder ...\configuration\std_annotation\symbols.
    • buw_separator (default) — Enter the name of separator symbol to be used.
  • ENABLE_SORTING
    Enable user to change the order of the entities within a Std-Annotation set.
    Image
    • YES — enable (default)
    • NO — disable
  • SHOW_ADD_BUTTON_PRECHECKED_ITEMS
    Additional button to allow the user to select all ‘required’ and ‘mandatory’ items from the Std-Annotations pool for automatic placement.
    Image
    • YES — enable
    • NO — disable (default)
  • UNCHECK_MANDATORY_ITEMS
    Setting this option to YES, will allow the user to deselect mandatory items from the Std-Annotations preview list.
    • YES — enable
    • NO — disable (default)
  • ENABLE_STD_ANNOTATION_FLAGS
    Enable the user to create flag symbols on the drawing referencing a specific block in the symbol stack. This affects only 2D mode.
    • YES — enable (default)
    • NO — disable
  • STD_ANNO_MIXED_FLAG_STATE
    Enable user to set a third state for the flags (Image = active | Image = inactive | Image = mixed). Mixed behaves like the active state, except that no notifications are prompted if no flag symbols were added on the drawing.
    • YES — enable
    • NO — disable (default)
     
Misc
  • ANNOTATION_FEATURE_NAME (3D mode only)
    Define the name of the annotation feature which will contain the elements belonging to the standard annotation. If the annotation feature with this name does not exist, the software will automatically create it.
    • STD_ANNOTATION (default)
  • MOVE_ANNOTATION_FEAT_TO_FOOTER (3D mode only)
    Defines whether to move the annotation feature to the model tree footer (solid mode only).
    • YES — move to footer (default)
    • NO — keep in regular model tree
  • STD_ANNO_USER_PROFILES_DIR
    Path to the folder location for saving and retrieving user profiles. Environment variables can be called out by a leading '$' character e.g. "C:\temp\$MY_ENV_VAR".
  • ENABLE_FLAG_SYMBOL_PROTECTION
    Flags are protected from user manipulation. If enabled, the flag gets deselected when the user attempts to select it. Changing the flag text is thus prevented. If disabled, the user can apply any actions to the flags, that Creo base functionalities provide. Therefore, all flag texts get updated automatically in the background, before the model/drawing gets saved.
    • YES — enable (default)
    • NO — disable