Annotations

The Interactive Drafting workbench lets you manipulate annotations.

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:

Datum Feature Creation and Modification
Geometrical Tolerance Creation, Modification and Copy

See Before You Begin to learn about important concepts, including setting text properties.

 

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.
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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.
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Create a text with a leader
Create a text with a leader either in the free space or associated with an element.
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Add a leader to an existing annotation
Add a leader to an annotation that was previously created.
Handle annotation leaders
Add or remove breakpoints, extremity or interruptions. Move and position leader breakpoints.
Add frames and sub-frames to existing text
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.
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Copy text graphical properties:
Copy the text graphical properties of an annotation or element to other elements.
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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.
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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.
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Create a roughness symbol
Create a roughness using a dialog box.
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Create a welding symbol
Create a welding symbol using a dialog box.
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Create a geometry weld
Create a geometry weld symbol.
Modify annotation positioning
Assign new positioning to existing annotations.
Create/modify a table
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
Query object links in a drawing.
 

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