Annotation

You can annotate your designs, drawings, and 3D markups with notes, dimensions, geometric tolerances, surface finish and datum symbols, as well as center marks, center lines, and threads. When you create annotations that are attached to the objects in your design, they stay attached, even when you modify those objects using the Design Closed tools. Annotations created on a drawing sheet or 3D markup Closed slide are part of that sheet or markup only; they do not appear on your design.

Each annotation has properties which you can modify in the Properties panel Closed . When you create the first annotation, it is scaled so that it will be visible when your design is zoomed to its extents in the Design window Closed . All other annotations use the same scale.

Annotation ribbon group

The Annotation Closed ribbon group contains the following tools, from left to right:

	Use the Select tool to choose Using Box, Using Lasso, Using Polygon, or Using Paint to select the highlighted object.
	Use the Dimension tool to create a measured dimension.
	Use the Note tool to select an annotation plane and enter text onto the plane.
	Use the Note Leader tool to connect a note to an object.
	Use the Thread tool to create a threaded surface on any cylinder, cone, or hole.
	Use the Center Line tool to add a center mark on any circle, arc, cylinder end, or sphere, and put center lines on any cylindrical face.
	Use the Geometric Tolerance tool to create a geometric tolerance.
	Use the Datum Symbol tool to insert a datum symbol.
	Use the Datum Target tool to insert datum targets onto your design, drawing sheet, or 3D markup slide.
	Use the Table tool to insert a table.
	Use the Hole Table tool to create a hole table.
	Use the Bolt Circle tool to view information about diameter, angular, and radial dimensions for a circular pattern.
	Use the Welding Symbol tool to create a weld symbol.
	Use the Barcode tool to create a barcode symbol.
	Use the Bill of Materials tool to create and insert a BOM.
	Use the Balloon tool to add BOM balloon notes.
	Use the Surface Finish tool to create a surface finish symbol.
	Update Annotations Reading Direction flips annotations that are backwards in the current viewing direction.
	Click to display SpaceClaim's detailing options.

Press Esc, then S to end any detailing action and return to the Select tool.