Annotations

Annotation commands are documented in the Interactive Drafting user's guide. As such, the information detailed in this section is presented in an Interactive Drafting context. 

In order to be consistent with the way commands have been grouped in toolbars and sub-toolbars, the following tasks are documented in the Manipulating Dimensions chapter:

Before You Begin

You should be familiar with basic concepts such as setting the properties of a text (font style, size, justification, etc.), using default values, and specifying the position and/ or orientation of a text.

Create a free text

Create a text that either wraps or not, that is assigned an unlimited width text frame, even though this text may reach the frame boundary.

Create an associated text

Create a text which you want to be and remain associated to an existing element.

Make an existing annotation associative

At any time and once an annotation has been created, you can add a link between an annotation and another element.

Create a text with a leader

Create a text with a leader either in the free space or associated with an element.

Add a leader to an existing annotation

Add a leader to an annotation that was previously created.

Add or remove breakpoints, extremity or interruptions. Move and position leader breakpoints.

Add a frame or a sub-frame to a text that was previously created.

Replicate a text and attribute:

Replicate text as well as the corresponding text attribute.

Copy text graphical properties:

Copy the text graphical properties of an annotation or element to other elements.

Create a datum target:

Create a datum target on a view.

Modify a datum target:

Modify a datum target by editing it in a dialog box.

Create a balloon:

Create a balloon using a dialog box. 

Creating an associative balloon on a generated product view

Create associative balloons on views generated from a product.

Modify a balloon

Modify a balloon using a dialog box.

Create a roughness symbol

Create a roughness using a dialog box.

Create a welding symbol

Create a welding symbol using a dialog box.

Create a geometry weld

Create a geometry weld symbol.

Modify annotation positioning

Assign new positioning to existing annotations.

Create, edit and modify a table.

Find/replace text

Locate and then, if needed, replace  strings of characters.

Perform an advanced search

Use the advanced search command.

Query object links in a drawing.

Adding attribute links to text

Add one or more attribute links between text that was previously created.