Greetings, Chris Green!

> On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 10:16:47PM -0500, Michael Ross wrote:
>> >    "How easy is it to add this ability to an object?  It would be really
>> >    handy to be able to label the network objects for example.
>> >
>>    I don't know the answer, but the shape files are text and you can view
>>    that directly. Perhaps you can find the elements regarding text in the
>>    shape with the capability. and experiment adding those elements in the
>>    shape where you want text.​
>> 
> Absolutely right!  :-)

> It *is* very easy to add text ability to objects.  It took me a couple
> of goes but I managed it without too much angst!

> So now I can add the text ability to the half-dozen or so shapes that
> I need it for.

The thing is, you don't need it.
Cisco network elements are just that - elements, a single hardware unit is
often a composition of a number of these elements, you would not be labeling
them separately. And you could always attache a label when you absolutely need
it.
Yes, adding text labels to existing objects is easy. The very ease of this
action should have indicated to you that if it was not made earlier, probably
there was a reason for it.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, December 4, 2017 23:18:51

Sorry for my terrible english...
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