Creating interior elevation markers

The Interior Elevation Marker tool creates an object that serves as a reference graphic for interior elevation viewports, to graphically indicate for which directions the viewports were created.

In Design Series products, interior elevation markers have additional functionality.

● Link an interior elevation marker to existing viewports, for annotation purposes.

● Sync the marker’s drawing titles, drawing numbers, and sheet number with the linked viewports.

The alignment modes temporarily override the marker’s defined insertion point, for precise placement.

● Click Style on the Tool bar to select a resource from the Resource Selector.

● Click Preferences to open the object properties dialog box and specify the tool’s default parameters.

Parameter	Description
Style	Replace the current style with one from the Resource Selector, or use the unstyled option
Hide style parameters	Hides the parameters that are set by style; these cannot be edited from the properties dialog box or Object Info palette
Auto-coordinate (Design Series required)	For a marker linked to viewports, automatically displays the Drawing Title and Drawing No. of the viewports in the marker. If the marker defines the interior elevation viewports (Vectorworks Architect required), deselect to enter this information manually.
Linked Layer (Design Series required)	Specifies the layer that contains the interior elevation viewports referenced in the marker. If the marker was created automatically while creating interior elevation viewports (Vectorworks Architect required), the linked layer is displayed, and cannot be edited.
North/East/South/West	Select the view directions to include in the marker; the interior elevation marker detects its position in relation to the four quadrants in the screen plane, sweeping 45° from each XY direction (0°, 90°, 180° and 270°) corresponding to North, East, South, and West naming. If the marker was created automatically while creating interior elevation viewports (Vectorworks Architect required), when the selection changes, the section line that defines the viewport in that direction is automatically added or deleted, as is the corresponding viewport.
Linked Viewport (Design Series required)	Specifies the viewport referenced by this section of the marker. If the marker was created automatically while creating interior elevation viewports (Vectorworks Architect required), the linked viewport is displayed, and cannot be edited. A red link icon is displayed next to a marker that isn’t linked to any viewports; the icon does not print.
Drawing Title/ Drawing No.	Identifies the item the marker references. If the marker is not linked to viewports, or if Auto-coordinate is deselected, enter the information manually. Otherwise, the information from the linked viewports is used.
Sheet No.	Enter the Sheet Number; this value is assigned by default for viewport-linked interior-elevation markers when Auto-coordinate is selected
Detail No.	Enter a detail number for the marker. This information can be displayed in the marker layout.
Marker Scale Factor	Scales the marker larger or smaller by the factor specified

Editing interior elevation markers

Once a marker is in the drawing, you can edit it from the Object Info palette. The following additional options are available when editing interior elevation markers.

Mode	Description
Align Object Left	Insertion point is the left edge of the marker’s bounding box
Align Object Center	Insertion point is the center of the marker’s bounding box
Align Object Right	Insertion point is the right edge of the marker’s bounding box
Align Object Origin	Insertion point is the marker’s originally specified insertion point
Style	Opens the Resource Selector to select an interior elevation marker for placement; double-click a resource to activate it
Preferences	Sets the default parameters that are used for each new interior elevation marker object

Option	Description
Style list options	● Replace: Applies a different style to this object ● Convert to Unstyled: Allows you to modify the settings and marker layout for this object only ● Edit Style: Allows you to modify the settings and marker layout for all objects in the drawing that use the current style See Creating styles for markers and drawing labels for details.
Edit Section Lines (Design Series required)	For a marker linked to viewports, click to enter Object editing mode and edit the section lines that define the viewports; see Modifying section lines graphically
Navigate to Viewports (Design Series required)	For a marker linked to viewports, navigates to the Linked Layer and selects the viewports
Edit Marker Layout (unstyled markers)	Opens an editing window to change the geometry and text in the marker; see Creating styles for markers and drawing labels