GENERAL NOTE

Purpose:

To directly annotate components within a drawing.

Instructions:

1. In Annotate menu, click General Note.

2. The first step is defining of text. There are two cases. If the text exists, it can be selected on the screen. If not, the user has to click Operation complete and then key in new text.

3. After OK the system message is: 'Start of reference line: Indicate contour or symbol'. When the reference line is defined, the function can be finished by Operation complete. The system will align the note with the last element of the reference line.

Options:

Some additional operations can be performed in this function by Options.

Click Options immediately after invoking the function. The system presents the next operations:

• Suppress Note symbol - hides Note symbol

• Change Note symbol - can be chosen from list of symbols

• Change reference symbol - can be chosen from list of symbols

• Fetch Model information - After indicating of model component the desired type of model information can be selected from list.

• Fetch Name - After indicating of model component the system fetches the name of the model component.

Result:

An annotation note can be suitable positioned and connected via a reference line to a geometric entity in the display and in the drawing file.