Drawing Annotation

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Insert a view

Clip

Drawing

Menu location
Drawing Annotation
Drawing → Annotation
Workbenches
Drawing
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
None

Description

This command allows you to place a block of text on a Drawing page.

Usage

Create a Drawing page
Refresh the view if a Drawing view wasn't opened
Press the Drawing Annotation button
Adjust the desired properties, such as text contents, font, size and position.

Limitations

Texts spanned on multiple lines are not supported by the internal Qt-based Svg viewer, but the Open Browser command shows these texts correctly.

Insert a view

Clip

Drawing

Tools: Open SVG, New A3 page, View, Annotation, Clip, Open browser, Ortho views, Symbol, Draft Drawing, Spreadsheet view, Save, Project shape

Additional: Drawing templates; Drawing Dimensioning Addon; Drawing programming documentation, Drawing API example

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