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Drawing Tools
Phase2 provides an extensive drawing and annotation toolkit which allows you to add text annotations, measure distances, angles and areas, and much more. Tools include:
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Dimensioning Tools
Contour Labels
Text Boxes
Axes
Lines / Arrows
Rectangles / Circles
Polyline / Polygon / Pencil
Add Image
Properties Table
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See the Drawing Tools overview for links and further information.
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Drawing Tools: Dimensioning
The dimensioning tools in Phase2 allow you to easily measure and display lengths, widths (horizontal distance), height (vertical distance) and angles anywhere on the model, as shown in the following figure.
Length, width, height and angle dimensions added to slope model
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Drawing Tools: Lines and Shapes
A variety of options are available for adding lines and geometric shapes, including Line, Arrow, Rectangle, Circle, Polyline, Polygon and Pencil options. All entities can easily be edited, re-sized, moved, duplicated etc. Line thickness, colour, fill and hatch pattern can be specified.
Lines, shapes, arrows, axes etc can be added to views
The Polygon option allows you to measure areas, which are displayed as a popup data tip when the mouse is hovered over a Polygon object. Similarly, the Polyline option can be used to measure the length of a polyline. Coordinate Axes can be added using either local or global coordinates.
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Drawing Tools: Text Annotations
Text annotations can be easily added, edited and customized (colour, font, size etc). Pre-defined Auto Text can be used to add labels which identify material properties, analysis parameters, vertex coordinates and more.
Material names
Vertex coordinates added using Auto Text
Add text dialog - text can be typed in the area at left, or Auto Text can be added using the checkboxes at the right.
Dynamic text is also available. Dynamic text allows you to add text boxes which will automatically update themselves according to the properties of the current model. This allows you to define one set of labels, which can then be used for multiple models (e.g. if you are performing parametric analysis).
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Drawing Tools: Properties Table
The Properties Table option allows you to add a formatted table of material properties to the view. All material types currently used in the model will be listed in the table.
Properties table added to view
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Drawing Tools: Adding Images
Images in BMP, JPG or GIF format can be added to views with the Import Image or Add Image options. This allows you to add graphics such as company logos, or import drawings to be used as modeling guides. You can set the image transparency, display the image behind the model, scale the image size, etc.
Company logo added to view
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Drawing Tools: Saving and Editing
Drawing tools are automatically saved with the Phase2 file and will automatically re-appear when you open the file. The tools can be edited using various shortcuts, for example:
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Left click on a tool to re-size or move by clicking and dragging with the
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Right click on a tool, the popup menu will display applicable editing options
Double click on a tool to display the Format Tool dialog
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Format tool dialog for polygon objects
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