Properties Control Bar

To show or hide this control bar:

Setup ribbon >> Show >> Properties Bar.
Using the command line, enter "toggle-properties-bar"
Use the quick key combination "tpb".
Display the Find Command screen, locate toggle-properties-bar and click Run.
Right click a file in the Project Files control bar and select Properties.
Right click a loaded data object in the Loaded Data control bar and select Properties.

The Properties control bar is a context sensitive settings table, updated on selection of data in the various data windows of your application.

The contents of this control bar vary depending if a physical file (Project Files or Project Data control bar) or loaded data object (Loaded Data control bar) is selected.

Data Properties

The following displays if a data object is selected in the Plots, Reports, Tables and Logs window.

Note: This does not affect 3D window object displays. These can be adjusted using the Data Properties control bar (and other interactive methods).

General
Name, Object Name	The name of the currently selected item.
Full Path	File selections only. The fully qualified path to the physical file.
Object Type	The data type of the selected item.
Description	A description of a loaded data object.
Share	Share data property changes with other instances of the same data in other logs, reports, tables, sheets and projections. Not shared – Data changes are only represented in the target projection, log sheet, report or table. Within sheet – Data changes automatically update all other instances of the data item within the plot sheet (all projections). Within document – Data changes automatically update all other instances of the data item within all projections of all plot sheets.
Source	For loaded data objects, the underlying data source, if available.
Store in document	Either Yes or No. If Yes, the data object is stored in the project file. If No, the data object is stored in an external file.
Data Table Properties (loaded objects only)
No. Columns	The number of attributes in the selected object.
No. Records	The number of data rows in the selected object.
Use legend	Yes indicates the specified Legend is used to colour the object. No ensures the selected object is coloured using the default solid colour.
Tags
[Name, value]	The name and value of the loaded object's tag.
Color
Column	The data attribute currently being used to colour the selected object (using the attribute's associated Legend), if one is used.
Use legend	Yes indicates the specified Legend is used to colour the object. No ensures the selected object is coloured using the default solid colour.
Color	If Use legend is No, this is the colour used to display the object.
Legend	If Use legend is Yes, this is the legend used to colour the object, based on the Column's values.
Appearance
Show bounding box	Only applies to Plots window data. If Yes, a cuboid hull displays around the target data object, for example:
Control
Can select	Yes – Allow this data object to be selected. No – Ignore this object when selecting data.
Snap	Yes – Allow this data object to be a snap target. No – Ignore this object when snapping to data.

Plot Sheet Properties

The following options are displayed when a Plan plot sheet is selected (not a plot sheet projection, nor projection section, nor a plot item):

General
Name	The name of the current plot sheet.
Auto size plot	Yes – The plot sheet view is automatically scaled to view all plot items, regardless of their size, fitting everything into the viewing area. No – The plot sheet scale is not automatically scaled to show all data.
Auto name sheet	Yes – Sheets are named automatically on creation. No – Sheets must be named manually.
Appearance
Size	The print media currently emulated in the Plots window. Select the drop-down list for more options.
Page orientation	Portrait or Landscape.
Draw margins	If Yes, margins of the selected media are shown on the screen as guidelines, for example:
Show printable area	Displays or hides a slashed line denoting the limits of the printable area for the selected media. Data falling outside these limits is not printed, and may result in printing errors.
Position
Width	The width of the sheet in mm.
Height	The height of the sheet in mm.
Margins
Top	The top margin of the sheet in mm.
Bottom	The bottom margin of the sheet in mm.
Left	The left margin of the sheet in mm.
Right	The right margin of the sheet in mm.

Projection Properties

When a plot sheet projection is selected, two additional ribbons appear: Section and View. These context-sensitive ribbons provide access to many of the properties listed below, but possibly in a more convenient way. Where a ribbon alternative exists, it is highlighted below.

The following options are displayed when a plot sheet projection is selected:

View Direction
Share	If Yes, share the selected projection's view direction with other projections on the sheet. To activate this facility, more than one projection must have an equivalent Share status. Whenever the view direction is changed for any projection, the direction of shared projections is updated automatically.
View Direction	Select a preset view direction, automatically updated Azimuth and Dip values (see below).
Azimuth	The azimuth of the projection's view direction.
Dip	The dip of the projection's view direction.
Align with section	If Yes, the view direction (and associated property fields) update automatically to be orthogonal to the current section definition. Otherwise, custom azimuth and dip values are used.
View Center
Share	If Yes, share the selected projection's view center setting with other projections on the sheet with the same property status.
XYZ	The coordinates of the centre point of the projection's view in 3D.
Use section mid point	Yes – The centre point according to the section definition is used to centre the data view. Selecting this updates XYZ values automatically, overriding any custom values. Tip: Edit the section mid point using the Section Properties screen, or the Section Mid-point settings further below. No – Use the current XYZ values to determine the view centre point.
Appearance
Opaque	Yes – Hide data that is 'behind' the projection. No – Allow data behind the projection to be visible. This can be useful when overlaying projections or adding photos with projections overlaid.
Section Mid-point
Easting	The easting of the projection's section mid point (X).
Northing	The northing of the projection's section mid point (Y).
Level	The level of the projection's section mid point (Z).
Section Orientation
Section orientation	Select a preset to update the Azimuth and Dip values below automatically.
Azimuth	Manually override the section definition's azimuth.
Dip	Manually override the section definition's dip.
Section Definition
Share	Shared – Share the section definition with other projections on the sheet. Any other projection that has the same setting is updated whenever the section definition changes. Not shared – Section definition changes apply to the target projection only. Consecutive – A method by which a projection is automatically assigned a unique section number, normally one higher than the highest recorded on the sheet. For example, if all projections were set to this value, they could be set to section definitions 1,2 and 3 (or 2,3 and 4 etc.) - subsequent alterations to section 1 would affect 2 and 3, but consecutive sections would still be shown. This is a useful way of showing sections either side of a selected central slice in multi-projection sheets. Locked – Prevent any changes to the current section definition for the selected section, regardless of any commands run from the menu or command bar.
Section Number	The index number of the current section in the section definition table.
Title	The name of the section as it appears in the Sheets and similar data control bars.
Sections Table
Use section table	Yes – Use a loaded section definition table to get the section definition for the active projection. No – Do not consider loaded section definition table data and form the section based on other values.
Section Clipping
Apply Clipping	If Yes, data is clipped outside of the current section definition's visibility corridor. See 3D Window Clipping.
Share	Not used.
Width	The total clipping distance (front and back combined).
Front Clip	The distance to clip in front of the projection's section.
Back Clip	The distance to clip behind the projection's section.
Secondary Clipping	Choose if secondary clipping is applied or not. You can apply secondary clipping to Both, Front or Back.
Position
X	The distance from the left edge of the sheet to the projection.
Y	The distance from the top of the sheet to the projection.
Width	The width of the projection in mm.
Height	The height of the projection in mm.
General One or both of these settings can be activated. For example, if both Linked and Live settings are enabled, if data is selected in one projection, it is selected in any other projection on the sheet that has a positive Linked setting, and will also force all linked views to update (if required) in order to show the selected data. By default, all projections are linked, but are not live, meaning that data selection is performed in all projections, but the view scale and direction is not updated.
Linked	This refers to how data selection is performed in multiple projections. If two (or more) projections are linked, when you select data in one, it becomes selected in the other(s).
Live	This refers to whether the view of data is automatically updated to show selected data.
Scale
Scale	The current scale ratio of the projection.
Share	If Yes, the scale of the projection is shared with other projections within the sharing scope.
Locked	If Yes, scaling settings cannot be edited either via the control bar or interactively (in Page Layout mode).
View Exaggeration
X	The scaling factor applied to the projection in X.
Y	The scaling factor applied to the projection in Y.
Z	The scaling factor applied to the projection in Z.

Plot Item Selections

Plot item properties depend on the type of plot item selected. Select a link for more information:

Note: Some plot items have a location. See Locatable Plot Items.