Guide to Generating Drawings
Guide to Generating Drawings
Guide to Generating Drawings

Place Note

Use it!

Used to place lines of text with a leader line and arrow, as a dimension element.

Tool SettingEffect
Text Style

Sets the current text style from a list of all available text styles.

To create a new text style, click the Magnifying Glass icon next to the Text Style option menu to open the Text Styles dialog box.

To restore any text-related tool settings to the default text style settings, click the Restore Styles icon.

Dimension Style

Sets the current dimension style from a list of all available dimension styles.

To create a new dimension style, click the magnifying glass icon next to the Dimension Style option menu to open the Dimension Styles dialog box.

To restore any dimension-related tool settings to the default dimension style settings, click the Restore Styles icon.

Text Rotation

Sets the rotation of the text relative to the leader line: Horizontal, Vertical, or In Line.

The default is value is set by the dimension style (Place Note category).

Text Frame

Sets the type of frame (if any) — None, Line, or Box.

The default is value is set by the dimension style (Place Note category).

The Line option is disabled in DWG workmode.

Height

Sets the text height, in working units.

The default is value is set by the text style.

Width

Sets the text width, in working units.

The default is value is set by the text style.

Annotation Scale Lock icon

Sets the Annotation Scale Lock. When this lock is on, the annotation scale is applied to any text that is placed in the model.

The annotation scale is set in the Model Properties dialog box. It defines the scale for text and dimensioning in the model, to allow for scaling back to normal size when printing.

Location

Determines whether the leader line can be placed with multiple segments. If set to Manual, you can place multiple segments. If set to Automatic, you can only place one segment of a leader line.

The default setting is set by the dimension style (Placement category).

Leader Type

Sets the type of leader: Line or Curve.

Start At

Controls how the note is placed:

  • Terminator
    • — If selected, the first data point that you enter places the end of the terminator, and the last data point places the text.
  • Text
    • — If selected, the first data point that you enter places the text, and the last data point places the end of the terminator.
In-line Leader

If on, uses an in-line leader. The in-line leader is an extra segment of the leader that aligned with the text.

Apply changes to all text

  • If on, applies style changes to all text in the Text Editor window. For example, if you key in text in the Text Editor, then click the Bold icon, all text becomes bold.

  • If off, applies style changes to selected text in the Text Editor window, or to new text. For example, if you key in text in the Text Editor, then click the Bold icon, only selected text becomes bold. Any new text will also be bold.

Association

  • If on, snapping a tentative point to the element being dimensioned causes an association point to be created.

  • If off, no associations are created.

Association is active only when the Association lock is on.

To place a note
  1. Select the Place Note tool.
    The Text Editor window opens if it is not already open.

  2. Type the text in the Text Editor window. See Entering and Editing Text.
    If there is no text in the Text Editor window, only the leader line and arrow are placed.

  3. Enter a data point to position the terminator arrowhead.

  4. Enter a data point.
    If Location (Dimension Styles dialog box) is set to Automatic or Semi-Automatic, this data point indicates the location of the end of the leader line and text, and ends the note.
    If Location is set to Manual, you can enter more data points to define additional vertices of the leader line. Reset to end the note.

    Place Note. Top row, from left: Text Frame set to None, Line, Box. Bottom row: from left: Text Frame set to None and Justification set to Left, Right, Dynamic with data points resulting in left-justified text, Dynamic with data points resulting in right-justified text.

      

Key-in: PLACE NOTE ICON


or

Key-in: PLACE NOTE [MULTI]

The resulting elements — text node, (optional) surrounding box or line, and (optional) leader line are automatically grouped. To edit the text, you must first ungroup the elements.

Place Note is one of the two underlying tool options for the Geometric Tolerance tool, which is used to build and place a feature control frame. The other option is Place Text.