The Pattern Legend Attributes window is used to define or to modify the location, layer, and appearance for a lithology, stratigraphy, well construction, or aquifer legend in a map or diagram. This window is displayed when you edit an existing pattern legend or insert a new pattern legend into a map or diagram.
! The program will pull the content for the legend from the project database's Lithology Types, Stratigraphy Types, Well Construction Types, or Aquifer Types when the diagram is first generated or the legend first inserted. After insertion, the database link is not maintained, and the text and patterns are simply stored in the Rw2D file. Thus, if you make changes to the Types table, they will not be reflected automatically in any existing legends; you'll need to re-insert the legend.
Appearance Options
- Plot Title: Insert a check here to include an upper row with a title. You can type the title text into the prompt box. Include a "^" character to start a new line in the title box (for example Well^Construction will break the title into two lines.
- Plot Border: Insert a check in this box to plot the outer border for the legend. Click on the line box to choose the style, thickness, and color for the border lines.
- Plot Dividers: Insert a check here to include divider lines between the legend item rows.
- Plot Patterns: Insert a check here to include the pattern designs in the legend. Typically you'll want to leave them on for diagrams where patterns are displayed, or off for diagrams where only background colors are shown.
- Show Background Colors: Insert a check here to include the background colors in the legend.
- Font: Choose the font style to be used by selecting it from the drop-down listing. The default is the font that is selected under Preferences | Program Settings
Dimensions Options
- Use these settings to define the dimensions of different items in the Legend, as a percent of the size of the legend.
- What's nice about this approach is that as you resize the legend, by grabbing the lower-right handle and dragging, the individual components (title, labels, patterns) will resize accordingly.
Position Options
- Layer: Use this setting to select the layer to which the pattern legend is to be associated. See Working with Layers for more information.
- Corner Points: The position of the legend can be defined by editing these coordinates or by interactively moving/resizing the legend.
- West: This coordinate defines the left or western edge for the legend.
- North: This coordinate defines the upper or north edge for the legend.
- East: This coordinate defines the right or east edge of the legend.
- South: This coordinate defines the lower or south edge of the legend.
General Options
- Visible: Insert a check in this box for the pattern legend to be visible in the drawing or map. Remove the check-mark to hide the legend.
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