How to change the auto position in Y of pipeline annotation tags?

[alissonsgarcia]

Hi.

In this project I'm working on, the annotation of pipelines is placed on top of the pipeline itself.

So, everytime I pick a location in the pipeline for the annotation, later I need to manually move the annotation a little above or below the pipeline.

I tried to change that editing the annotation in Project Setup, but the setting for Y-offset was locked, blocking me from changing that behaviour.

Question 1: How can I fix this?

Question 2: In case the solution comes from editing that X-Y-Offset, what happens when the pipeline is vertical and not horizontal? Will it rotate the reference axes before doing the y-offset to place the annotation above the pipeline and in the same orientation? 

Cheers,

[Tomislav.Golubovic · Accepted solution]

Move the annotation block itself in the Y distance you want it to be, from the 0,0 insertion point. Then when you insert it on a pipeline it will be the set distance above the line. This also works in the vertical. Assuming you're working in PID?

[alissonsgarcia · Accepted solution]

@Tomislav.Golubovic  thanks for the reply.

Your suggestion worked but with a side effect.

I'll leave a step-by-step explanation here of what I did with screenshots and mention the side-effect at the end of my reply.

I opened Project Setup:

Went to Pipeline Segments, then EDIT BLOCK.

In Project Setup, I moved the attribute tag that was sitting in the middle of the X-axis to a position a little bit above the X-axis.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Saved, applied, and hit OK.

Went to the drawing, hit

Picked the specs and checked the Annotation tag field:

Assigned it to a pipeline:

Got the result I wanted.

But, there was a side effect to it.

Before doing that change to the pipe block, the annotation tags were sitting on top of the pipelines. So, every time I placed an annotation tag on a pipe, I moved it above the pipeline afterward. So, now, after changing the position of the attribute tag in the block, all the previous pipe tags that I had moved a little above the pipeline are displayed even more above the pipelines.

So, I'll have to reposition all the previous pipe tags that I placed in this project's drawings.

Thanks again. Cheers.