The Scalebar Attributes window is used to define or to modify the location, layer, and appearance for map or diagram scalebars. This window is displayed when you edit an existing scalebar in or insert a new scalebar into a map or diagram. Scalebars can represent distance or elevation on cross sections, or coordinates on maps or profiles.
Appearance Options
- Line Style: Click on the sample to select the style, thickness, and color for the scalebar axis line.
- Title: Type into this prompt any text to be used as a title for the axis, such as "Distance" for a horizontal axis on a cross section, or "UTM Easting (Feet)" on a map. This can be left blank.
- Orientation: Select Parallel for the axis title to be plotted parallel to the axis line. Choose Perpendicular for the axis title to plot perpendicular to the axis line.
- Size: Type in the size for the axis title, as a percent of the map/diagram extents.
- Color: Click on the color box to choose a color for the title text.
- Background: Here you can define whether the title text is to be against a transparent or opaque background. If you choose the latter, click on the color box to choose a background color.
- Plot Labels: Be sure this is checked if you want labels plotted at intervals along the axis. (See Values, below, for the increments for the settings for label increments.)
- Endpoint Caption: Text that you enter here can be plotted at the beginning and ending points of the axis.
- Orientation: Select Parallel for the scalebar labels to be plotted parallel to the axis line. Choose Perpendicular for the labels to plot perpendicular to the axis line.
- Size: Type in the size for the scalebar labels, as a percent of the map/diagram extents.
- Color: Click on the color box to choose a color for the label text.
- Background: Here you can define whether the labels are to plot against a transparent or opaque background. If you choose the latter, click on the color box to choose a background color.
- Text Position: Choose Left or Right to place the labels to the left or right of the axis.
- Omit labels that extend beyond endpoints: Insert a check here if those labels that extend past the end of the axis itself are to be omitted from display.
- 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.
- Tick Marks:
- Style: These settings allow you to specify whether the ticks are to be plotted on the same side as the labels, on the opposite side, or both.
- Tick Size: Set the size of the tick marks, as a percent of the map/diagram extents.
Values
- Start, End: These define the values that are represented at the beginning and ending point of the scalebar axis. Generally these are set automatically by the program that generated the graphic image. Initially, they will match the Location values at the start and end of the scalebar axis, below.
! If you want the values to be set to match the location coordinates of the scalebar itself, use the Set Value to X or Set Values to Y buttons, discussed below.- Manual Decimals: Check this box if you want to override the number of decimal places that RockWorks is using in the labels. Note that values rounded to the closest integer can't be displayed with > 1 decimal place, regardless of the setting you choose here. For example, a coordinate of 653,250.0 cannot be forced to be displayed as "653,250.000".
- Intervals:
- Automatic: If the labeling intervals were determined automatically by RockWorks during diagram generation, this will be the default setting.
- Manual: If you want to enter your own labeling interval, you can choose this option. Then, type in the intervals, in map or diagram units, for the tick marks and the labels.
Location Options
- Layer: Use this setting to select the layer to which the scalebar is to be associated. See Working with Layers for more information.
- Endpoints:
- Start: These define the starting point for the scalebar. They will correspond to the map or diagram units. Note that for cross sections and profiles, the Y coordinate will represent elevation.
- End: These determine the ending point for the scalebar, in your map or diagram units.
- Set Values to X: Click this button if the scalebar is horizontal and should be labeled to match the X location coordinates.
- Set Values to Y: Click this button if the scalebar is vertical and should be labeled to match the Y location coordinates.
General Options
- Visible: Insert a check in this box for the scalebar to be visible in the drawing or map. Remove the check-mark to hide the scalebar.
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