{"id":395657,"date":"2024-11-28T13:04:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/possible-to-customize-labels-added-using-graphicsaddlabel-in-mechanical-2020\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T13:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:04:58","slug":"possible-to-customize-labels-added-using-graphicsaddlabel-in-mechanical-2020","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/possible-to-customize-labels-added-using-graphicsaddlabel-in-mechanical-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible to customize labels added using Graphics.AddLabel in Mechanical 2020?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<div><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>defResult = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Analyses[0].Solution.Children[1]<\/span><\/div><div><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>ds=ExtAPI.DataModel.InternalObject[“ds”]<\/span><\/div><div><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>labelID=ds.Graphics.AddLabel(defResult.ObjectId, 520, “DeformResult”, 0.024, 0.004136, 0.0082857, 0x0000ff)<\/span><\/div><div><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”># Arguments are: ObjectID, classID(520 for result), X_coor, Y_coor, Z_coor, color<\/span><\/div><div><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”># This just creates an annotation probe with text “DeformResult” not the value of a result at that location<\/span><\/div><div><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>ExtAPI.Graphics.Redraw()<\/span><\/div><div> <\/div><div><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>The python code above works pretty well for our use case, because we only need labels with some custom text, but now I got asked if we can edit those labels some more.<\/span><\/div><div><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>So basically, is it possible to:<\/span><\/div><div><\/p>\n

    <li class=”hassub” style=”font-size: 12pt;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>Detect which label was clicked and get its labelID?<\/span><\/li>\n

    <li class=”hassub” style=”font-size: 12pt;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>Remove the line that connects the label and the Point, so that label stays in the point location like normal annotations?<\/span><\/li>\n

    <li class=”hassub” style=”font-size: 12pt;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>Temporary hide some of the labels?<\/span><\/li>\n

    <li class=”hassub” style=”font-size: 12pt;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>Or basically edit anything else than what can be seen in the above code?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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