Draft AnnotationStyleEditor

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Draft AnnotationStyleEditor
Menu location
Annotation → Annotation styles
Workbenches
Draft
Default shortcut
-
Introduced in version
0.19
See also
Draft Text, Draft Dimension, Draft Label

Description

The Annotation style editor tool allows you to define styles that affect the visual properties of annotation-like objects, like Text, Dimension, and Label.

File:Draft AnnotationStyleEditor example.png

Style editor to configure the annotations.

Usage

1. Press Draft Annotation style editor button.
2. Open the combobox, and then choose Add new... to define a new style, or select one of the existing styles.
3. Adjust the properties of the style, and then press OK when satisfied.

Use the Rename or Delete to rename or delete the active style.

Styles

The annotation styles are saved as dictionaries in the Meta attribute of the document. This attribute is inspected by the annotation style editor when it is opened.

print(App.ActiveDocument.Meta["Draft_Style_Custom"])
{"FontName": "DejaVu Sans", "FontSize": "12.0000 ", "LineSpacing": "1 cm", "ScaleMultiplier": 1.0, "ShowUnit": false, "UnitOverride": "m", "Decimals": 2, "ShowLines": true, "LineWidth": 1, "LineColor": 1095216660480, "ArrowType": 0, "ArrowSize": "5.0000 ", "DimensionOvershoot": "1.0000 ", "ExtensionLines": "5.0000 ", "ExtensionOvershoot": "1.0000 "}

Since the Meta attribute can hold arbitrary information, each style that appears in the style editor is prefixed by Draft_Style_.

Draft

• Drafting: Line, Polyline, Fillet, Arc, Arc by 3 points, Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle, Polygon, B-spline, Cubic Bézier curve, Bézier curve, Point, Facebinder, ShapeString, Hatch
• Annotation: Text, Dimension, Label, Annotation styles, Annotation scale
• Modification: Move, Rotate, Scale, Mirror, Offset, Trimex, Stretch, Clone, Array, Polar array, Circular array, Path array, Path link array, Point array, Point link array, Edit, Subelement highlight, Join, Split, Upgrade, Downgrade, Wire to B-spline, Draft to sketch, Set slope, Flip dimension, Shape 2D view

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• Draft Tray: Select plane, Set style, Toggle construction mode, AutoGroup
• Snapping: Snap lock, Snap endpoint, Snap midpoint, Snap center, Snap angle, Snap intersection, Snap perpendicular, Snap extension, Snap parallel, Snap special, Snap near, Snap ortho, Snap grid, Snap working plane, Snap dimensions, Toggle grid

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• Miscellaneous: Apply current style, Layer, Manage layers, Add a new named group, Move to group, Select group, Add to construction group, Toggle normal/wireframe display, Create working plane proxy, Heal, Show snap toolbar
• Additional: Constraining, Pattern, Preferences, Import Export Preferences, DXF/DWG, SVG, OCA, DAT
• Context menu:
  • Layer container: Merge layer duplicates, Add new layer
  • Layer: Activate this layer, Select layer contents
  • Text: Open hyperlinks
  • Wire: Flatten
  • Working plane proxy: Write camera position, Write objects state

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• Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
• Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate

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