TechDraw NewAnnotation
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| Menu location |
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| TechDraw → Annotation |
| Workbenches |
| TechDraw |
| Default shortcut |
| None |
| Introduced in version |
| - |
| See also |
| Draft Text, Draft ShapeString |
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Description
The Annotation tool adds a text block to a drawing page.
Annotation in the drawing page
Usage
- If you have multiple drawing pages in your document, you will need to select the desired page in the tree.
- Press the
Annotation button - A text block containing "Default Text" will appear on the page. Use the property editor to change the text. Drag the Annotation to the required position.
- You may need to press recompute
to get your text to change.
Modifying the annotation through the property editor
Note: some characters interfere with the internal representation of the Annotation text. Specifically, these are the double quote ", less than <, and greater than > symbols; these must be replaced by HTML escape characters, ", <, and > respectively. See Character encodings in HTML for details.
Properties
The Annotation inherits all applicable basic View properties except DataScale. Use the DataTextSize property instead.
- DataText: The text to be displayed.
- DataFont: The name of the font to use. Annotation will use the best match of installed fonts.
- DataTextColor: The color of the text.
- DataTextSize: The size of the text in mm.
- DataMaxWidth: The maximum width of the Annotation block. -1 indicates no maximum width.
- DataLineSpace: Line spacing adjustment (%).
- DataTextStyle: "Normal", "Bold", "Italic", "Bold-Italic"
Scripting
See also: TechDraw API and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.
The New Annotation tool can be used in macros and from the Python console by using the following functions:
anno = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject('TechDraw::DrawViewAnnotation','TestAnno')
anno.Text = ['Different Text']
anno.TextStyle = 'Bold'
rc = page.addView(anno)
Notes
TechDraw 
- Pages: Insert Default Page, Insert Page using Template, Redraw Page
- Views: Insert View, Insert Active View, Insert Projection Group, Insert Section View, Insert Detail View, Insert Draft Workbench Object, Insert Arch Workbench Object, Insert Spreadsheet View
- Clips: Insert Clip Group, Add View to Clip Group, Remove View from Clip Group
- Dimensions: New Length, New Horizontal, New Vertical, New Radius, New Diameter, New Angle, New Angle3Pt, New Links, New Balloon
- Decorations: Hatch Face using Image File, Apply Geometric Hatch to Face, Insert SVG Symbol, Insert Bitmap Image, Turn View Frames On/Off
- Annotations: Insert Annotation, Add Leaderline to View, Insert Rich Text Annotation, Add Cosmetic Vertex, Add Midpoint Vertices, Add Quadrant Vertices, Add Centerline to Face(s), Add Centerline between 2 Lines, Add Centerline between 2 Points, Remove Cosmetic Object, Change Appearance of Line(s), Show/Hide Invisible Edges, Add Welding Information to Leader
- Import/Export: Export Page as SVG, Export Page as DXF
- Additional: Preferences; Hatching, LineGroup, Templates; TechDraw API, TechDrawGui API
User documentation 
- Installation: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac, Docker, AppImage; Getting started
- Basics: About FreeCAD, Workbenches, Preferences, Document structure, Interface Customization, Properties, Mouse Model; Tutorials, Video tutorials
- Workbenches: Std Base; Arch, Draft, FEM, Image, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Path, Plot, Points, Raytracing, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Ship, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface workbench, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web
- Scripting: Introduction to Python, FreeCAD scripting tutorial, FreeCAD Scripting Basics, How to install macros, Gui Command, Units Modules: Builtin modules, Workbench creation, Installing more workbenches Meshes: Mesh Scripting, Mesh Module Parts: The Part Module, Topological data scripting, PythonOCC, Mesh to Part Coin scenegraph: The Coin/Inventor scenegraph, Pivy Qt interface: PySide, Using the FreeCAD GUI, Dialog creation Parametric objects: Scripted objects Other: Code snippets, Line drawing function, Embedding FreeCAD, FreeCAD vector math library, Power users hub, Python, Macros, FreeCAD Scripting Basics, Topological data scripting
