Overview
The top portion of the LabelMaker page contains most of the settings available for your label

You select your working label here, save any changes, set you Label Basis and any Basis options, set printing options, and design helper options

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Basic Label Selection, Name, and Saving Changes
The left hand most options allow your to select your working Label, change the name, and save your work

Select a Label
Select a label from the dropdown to activate it. Any label with "(copy)" is the name is a label you've copied from another user via Label Sharing. You won't be able to make changes, but you can duplicate it.

To create a new label, select "Create..." from the dropdown menu, enter a Label Name, and click the "Save Label" link

Selecting "Create..." doesn't change any of the existing design options, making it simple to duplicate an existing label. Simply select the source label first, then change the drop down to "Create...", set a new name, and click "Save"

Label Name
The name of your label

Save Label
Clicking this link saves your current work, assuming you own the label. If you've made significant changes to your label, the Save link will pulse orange to remind you to save

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Label Basis and Options
The label basis determines what your labels are based on, and what data is available to your labels

Each label is based off a specific part of your Project. Generally you want one label per "item" in whatever category you're creating a label for. The Label Basis sets what group of "items" we create labels from, and what fields of information are available for each label

Fixture Basis
The Fixture basis creates one label per fixture added to your project

Using the Fixture Basis, you have the option to Select Specific Fixtures, printing only those specific labels. Use the text box to enter the standard format: Single fixture numbers (101), fixture number ranges with either 'thru' or a dash (-) (101 thru 111), or a combination separated by commas (101,201,301-311,411 thru 450)

Press enter or the "Refresh Label Data" link to apply the Fixture Numbers

Cables (Cablesheet) Basis
Creates a label for every cable entered in your Cable Worksheet

With this basis, you'll have the option to print two labels for any item with a length, and a single label for any item without length. This is meant to catch the different between cables (where you'd want a label on either end), and something like a Fanout (where you only need one label)

Circuits (Circuit Worksheet) Basis
Creates a label for every individual circuit in your Fixture Circuiting Worksheet

Cables (Circuit Worksheet) Basis
Creates a label for every Cable in your Fixture Circuiting Worksheet

This differs from the Circuits basis in that you can print one label for each cable in your circuiting worksheet, with every circuit on one label. This is meant to let you print breaker labels for power distribution racks easily

Positions Basis
Creates a label for every Position in your Project, meant to help with Case Labels and Truss Labels

The Position Basis has the "Truss-End Label Options", meant to work with "Position Filter". This option create Truss Labels, using Named ends (Stage Right -> Stage Left), and numbered truss junctions ("1" to "1", "2" to "2", etc)

First, use the Position Filter to only show Positions that you'd like to print truss labels for

Then, click the "Show Truss-End Label Options" link to show the truss label option panel.

For each included position, you'll see a line with the position name, "Pre Text", "Post Text", and "Qty"

"Pre Text" is the label text you'd like at the start of your truss. If you'd like to count from Stage Right to Stage Left, enter "Stage Right" in the Pre Text box. To count from Upstage to Downstage, enter "Upstage" in the Pre Text box

"Post Text" is the label text at the end of your truss, enter the opposite of that you wrote in the "Pre Text" box (Stage Left, or Downstage in our example)

"Qty" specified how many truss sections you have

Once the Truss-End options are filled out and a proper Label Design is selected, pressing the "Refresh Label Data" link will create Truss Labels

Position Filter
The position filter lets you select which Positions to print, which starts with every position selected.

Click to select a single position, click-and-drag to select multi positions in a row, and control-click to add or remove single positions from the selection

To apply the filter after making changes, click the "Refresh label Data" link

Sort By
To sort you labels, use the "Add Sort Criteria" link to open the "Sort your Labels" dialog. From there you can new sort criteria by clicking on them. The criteria available are based on what Basis you have selected

If you'd like to sort in reverse order, check the "Sort Dscending Instead od Ascending" checkbox before adding a criteria

Criteria are added to the "Sort By" line under the "Label Basis" dropdown as you click them. If you need to remove a criteria, click on it in the "Sort By" list.

Your labels will be sorted in order of criteria: If you select Position, Fixture Type, then Fixture Number, your labels will be sorted first by Position, then inside each unique Position the labels will be sorted by Fixture Type, and finally inside each Type the labels will be sorted by Fixture Number

Sort Criteria is saved with your labels, click the "Save Label" link to save the sort order.

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General Label Maker Options
The right-hand of the Label Options area has general options that apply to all label types

Refresh Label Data
Refreshes the label data from the server. Any Data Field changes or Position filter changes are applied after you click the Refresh link. All other options are left alone

How Many Labels Per Item
How many labels to print (in a row) per item. This is roughly the same as printing two copies of your labels, but the duplicates are printed one after another.

Skip a Number of Labels Before Printing
Skips labels on your sheet of labels. Used to print with already used sheets of labels that have some missing

Design Guides (Show Rules, Show Symmetry, Show Keepout Guide)
To help you design your labels, we've added some guides to help line elements up and space them correctly

Show Rules (inches) - Overlays a ruler onto the drawing canvas. The red ticks are inches, and the blue ticks are fractions of inches, the smallest being 1/8 of an inch

Show Symmetry Hashes - Overlays symmetry lines onto the drawing canvas, breaking the label up into 1/8th pieces. The red ticks are center, and the blue marks are 1/4 and 1/8 divisions

Show Keepout Guide - Overlays a Keepout Guide onto the drawing canvas. Defined in the Label Template definition, the Keepout Guide is a box drawn around the label, as a guide to prevent element s from getting too close to the edge of a label and cut off