Drawing Notes

There is a difference between drawing notes of a whole document and drawing notes on a drawing page.

Drawing notes of a document can be created and edited using the Drawing Notes command. Such notes are not bound to any particular drawing page. They refer to the whole document. For instance, you can create them at first in a document which only has a 3D model and use them on a drawing page later. Creating and editing drawing notes of a document is performed in a text editor.

Drawing notes of a document can be inserted into the regular text.

Drawing notes on a drawing page can be created using the New command and edited using the Edit command. Such notes are bound to a particular drawing page. If their content doesn't fit a single page it can be wrapped to subsequent pages.

If the drawing notes rectangle has been manually modified (moved, resized), it will not move, when using Full Regeneration or Update layout elements. To move the modified rectangle to the standard position, you must use the Restore Default Position command, which appears only for modified drawing notes.

At first, upon creating notes on a page, the text of the document's notes is automatically inserted into them (if document's notes exist in this document). Then you can manually edit or delete the automatically inserted text. Editing the text on a drawing page doesn't affect the content of document's notes. Notes on a page may be deleted in the same way as the regular text.

Both document's notes and notes on a drawing page can be used for creating leader notes.

Creating drawing notes on a drawing page

Upon calling this command, a bounding rectangle is displayed on a drawing page, in which you can enter the notes' text. If there are document's drawing notes in the current document, then their text is automatically inserted into the rectangle.

The inserted text doesn't have associative link to document's notes, so editing the document's notes in future does not affect the notes on a page and vice versa.

The drawing notes on a drawing page are a paragraph text, so they can be edited in the same way as any regular paragraph text. The detailed information on working with texts can be found in the Text chapter.

Position and dimensions of notes' bounding rectangle on a drawing page are defined by a title block's template. the text is created in such way, so that its position and dimensions are automatically adjusted upon changing position and dimensions of a title block.

Creating drawing notes on a drawing page is not possible and the corresponding command is not available until you create a title block.

Editing drawing notes on a drawing page

Calling the command launches the text contents editing mode for drawing notes already created on a drawing page. Editing is performed in the same way as editing of a regular paragraph text. The command is not available, if there are no drawing notes on the current page.

If Transparent text editing is enabled (Document Parameters > Page > View > Text), then the command is launched automatically upon clicking within the text's bounding rectangle.

The text of notes may also be edited using regular text editing commands.

Creating/editing drawing notes of a document

When invoking this command, the text editor window appears, where you can input text of document's drawing notes. Working with notes' text is performed in the same way as working with regular text.

Leaders by drawing notes

The command allows convenient creation and viewing of leader notes linked to a particular drawing notes' record.

Upon calling the command, you can select one of the following modes in the top of the parameters window:

Create;

Highlighting.

Select the necessary set of drawing notes (notes of the whole document or a particular drawing page) in the drop-down list below.

The table next to it contains records of the selected set. The first column # contains record's index number, the Text column - record's text. Records can be selected in the tables using .

In the Create mode selecting a record launches the leader note command with custom parameters, where main shoulder's text contains index number of a selected record. In leader note's parameters the number is displayed in curly braces. The rest of the leader note's creation process is the same as described for the Leader Note command. Same as usual leader notes, leaders by drawing notes can be created not only in drawing but also in 3D scene. As creation of a note is finished, the system returns to the Leaders by Drawing Notes command, so you can sequentially create multiple leader notes for multiple records. Records, that already have at least a single corresponding leader note, are highlighted in the table. Create all necessary notes and finish the command by clicking or using one of the buttons in the parameters window's header. There's a link between a drawing notes record and its corresponding leader note. Therefore, if an index number of a record has changed due to adding or removing other records, you can update corresponding leader notes automatically by calling the Regenerate command.

In the Highlighting mode selecting a record in the table highlights all its linked leader notes in 2D and 3D windows.

See Also:

•Text

•Drawing Title Block

•Pages

•Leader Notes

•Font Parameters of Drawing Detailing Elements

•Change Size of Font and Arrows for All Elements on Current Page