Introduction to Annotation

This Chapter describes the part of the Draft database used to store annotation elements, that is dimensioning elements, labelling elements, and 2D drafting elements (that means, geometric primitives, symbols, and text). This part of the Draft database hierarchy (see Draft Database Hierarchy) is shown below:

Figure 11:1. Annotation Elements

Dimensioning and Labelling elements are owned by Layers. Other text, symbols and graphics are owned by Notes. There are two types of Note:

• Sheet Notes (NOTEs) owned by Sheets

• View Notes (VNOTs) owned by Views.