Place SmartLabels

Technical drawings often have many labels that display important information about the objects or elements in the document. In SmartSketch there are two types of labels: text labels and SmartLabels. In this exercise, you will be placing several SmartLabels in your diagram.

A SmartLabel is associated to an object or element's text attributes. A SmartLabel displays the attributes of the element or object as text in the document. You can drag SmartLabels from the Symbol Explorer into the current document. As you change an element's or object's attributes in the Attribute Viewer or the Properties dialog box, the SmartLabel's text updates to display those changes.

Click the Show Me   button on the SmartSketch Learning Center toolbar for a complete demonstration of the tasks in this lesson.

1. Locate the Label(center).sym symbol in the Symbol Explorer.
2. Drag the symbol onto the drawing sheet and drop it onto the lower left corner of the Web Sales Tower symbol.

Notice that the label now displays the description text (Web Sales Tower) from the symbol.

3. Select the label symbol, and click the Lock Handle to unlock the symbol's position. 

Note

• A small green lock represents a lock handle. You click the lock handle to unlock the symbol. Unlocking allows you to move a symbol away from the element to which the symbol is associated.

4. Drag the label symbol so that it's centered between the server and monitor symbols.
5. From Symbol Explorer, drag and drop another label symbol onto the tower symbol on the right.  
6. Unlock the symbol, and center it between the server and monitor symbols.
7. On the Symbol Explorer, click the Printers folder to open it and locate the Laserjet Printer genr3023.sym.
8. Drag the Laserjet Printer genr3023.sym onto the drawing sheet and drop it centered between two servers.
9. Using the Horizontal scroll bar, scroll to the left of the Web Sales Tower.
10. On the Symbol Explorer, click the Modems folder and locate the Courier I-Modem External ISDN-V Point Everything 3COM1351.sym.
11. Drag the symbol onto the drawing sheet and drop it to the left side of the Web Sales Tower.