Annotation Properties

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Name

Specifies the actor name. This name appears in the Collaboration or Assembly tree and is the default tooltip text.

Tooltip

Specifies the tooltip text that appears when you hover over the actor. The default is the actor name, but you can select a different property or meta-property, or type a text string. To type text, which itself can contain properties, select String and use the Tooltip string property.

Note: By default, labels attached to an actor display the actor's tooltip text. To change this behavior, modify the label's Text property.

Tooltip string

(Available when Tooltip is String.) Specifies the tooltip text. Type your text, optionally with property keywords. For geometry actors, click to display the Text pane, where you can type multiple lines of text and more easily embed properties.

See Text pane for details on property keywords and the Text pane.

Opacity

Specifies the opacity, from 0 (transparent) to 255 (solid).

Stay on top

Makes the collaborative actor visible even when a geometry actor covers it.

Disabled	Enabled

Auto show

Displays hidden annotation and measurement actors temporarily when you move the mouse pointer over the associated geometry actor. The annotation or measurement disappears when you hover over a different actor.

Note: The Collaboration tree does not reflect this temporary change of visibility.

Auto alignment

Specifies positions for collaborative actors with respect to their associated geometry actors: Perimetric, Circle, Rectangle, Bottom, Bottom and left, Bottom and right, Bottom and top, Top, Top and left, Top and right, Left, Left and right, Right, Free 2D, Free 3D.

Notes:

• To align collaborative actors using magnetic lines, Auto alignment must be Free 2D or Free 3D. When dragged onto a magnetic line, an actor's Auto alignment is set to Free 2D automatically.
• To ensure that cutting planes are applied to annotations, you must set Auto alignment to either Free 2D or to Free 3D.

Auto hide

Specifies whether the annotation should be hidden if the anchor of the label or callout is hidden.

• Disable: Disables Auto hide.
• Standard: Enables Auto hide if the anchor of the annotation is hidden by any geometry (even the geometry linked by the annotation).
• Advanced: Enables Auto hide if the anchor of the annotation is hidden by any geometry other than the linked object.

  Note: Depending on the number of annotations, the Advanced option may be slow. It is recommended to use it only when needed.

Draw style

(Available with Attach > Type is not None.) Specifies how annotations connect to their associated actors:

• Attach lines - Draws a line to each actor.
• Bounding box - Draws one line to a bounding box around the actors.

Attach lines	Bounding box

Show inertia axes

Displays axis lines at each attach point to show actor orientation in the world coordinate system.

Column format

Lists the x, y, and z coordinates vertically. To list the coordinates horizontally on one line, clear this property.

Disabled	Enabled

Color

Specifies the text color.

Font

Specifies the font family, style, and size of actor text. The default font family is your machine's default font or Arial depending on Use default GUI font for text (Application Preferences - Viewport). The default size is specified by Font size ([Default] Document Properties - Paper Space).

Notes:

• Font (size) and Size properties are linked.
• When a font is not available in a vector image format, it is replaced by a default font. If the vector output is not acceptable, use a different font in Composer.

Size

Specifies the text size, in points. The default size is specified by Font size (in [Default] Document Properties - Paper Space).

Notes:

• Font (size) and Size properties are linked.
• Because Size is stored as pixels in Composer files, changing your screen resolution (DPI) changes rendered text sizes.

Size in paper space

Defines the font size in the paper space. When you resize the viewport or zoom the paper space, the text scales accordingly. To define text size as fixed in the viewport, clear this property.

Before Zooming the Paper Space

After: Size in paper space Enabled

After: Size in paper space Disabled

Note: You can specify the default value using AnnotationRelativeComposer (for Composer) or AnnotationRelativePlayer (for Composer Player) on the Application Preferences - Advanced Settings page.

Parent (level)

Specifies the actor whose Text value is used as the annotation text. You can choose the selected actor (level 0) or any parent. For example, you can select a part or its parent assembly.

Text

Specifies which property or meta-property is displayed as the actor's text.

• For annotations other than coordinate labels: To type text, which itself can contain properties, select String and use the Text string property.*
• For coordinate labels: By default, this property is set to None. In this case, only the coordinates are displayed.

Text string

(Available when Text is String.) Specifies the text. To type multiple lines of text or to embed properties, click to display the Text pane. See Text pane.

Wrap

Wraps text. Selecting this option displays an anchor at the top right-hand corner of the annotation. Drag the anchor horizontally to change the width of the label, or specify it in the Wrap width field.

Wrap width

(Available when Wrap is enabled.) Specifies the width of the annotation, in millimeters.

Quantity exponent

Specifies the location of the BOM quantity on the callout:

• None (no exponent)
• Top-right
• Bottom-right
• Top-left
• Bottom-left

Note: To display quantities of 1, enable ShowCalloutExponentX1 (Document Properties - Advanced Properties page).

Example: Top-right exponent with font ratio of 75%:

Font ratio

Specifies the size of the Quantity exponent text as a percentage of the callout text.

Exponent Shape

(Available when Quantity exponent is enabled.) Displays the quantity exponent with a circular background of the same color as the callout background.

Type

Specifies the attachment line style. You can position the attach line by dragging the anchor at either endpoint.

	None(no line to the attach point)
	Model
	Vertex
	Gradient tooltip
	Tooltip style
	Line
	User(three anchors)
	Simple
	Arc tooltip
	Basic

Note: If you select None as the attach type for labels and callouts, the attachment line will disappear. However, if you drag the attach anchor, the attachment line will reappear. To prevent this from happening, you can subscribe the annotation to a style. See Apply a Style.

Width

(Available when Attach Type is Line, Vertex, Model, Simple, User, or Arc tooltip.) Specifies the width of the attach line, in millimeters.

Color

(Available when Attach Type is Line, Vertex, Model, Simple, or User.) Specifies the attach color.

Line Type

(Available when Attach Type is Line, Vertex, Model, Simple, or User.) Specifies the attach line type.

End

(Available when Attach Type is Line, User, or Simple.) Specifies the attach extremity symbol.

	None
	Bold arrow
	Medium arrow
	Thin arrow
	Rhombus
	Round
	Cross

Size

Specifies the size of the extremity, in millimeters.

Curvature

(Available for Arc tooltip only.) Specifies the arc shape. For 2D panels only, you can change the curvature by dragging the curvature anchor in the viewport.

Show

Displays an attach border. Not available for all attach types.

Without attach border	With attach border (pink)

Note: For annotations, Border settings override Attach border settings.

Color

Specifies the attach border color.

Opacity

Specifies the border opacity, between 0 (transparent) and 255 (solid).

Type

Specifies the border line type.

Width

Specifies the attach border width, in millimeters.

Shape

Specifies the annotation or label shape.

	None
	Rectangle
	Rounded Rectangle
	Square
	Circle
	Ellipse
	Rhombus

Note: When the label orientation is set to Auto, if a measurement value overlaps the leader line and you set its label's shape to None, some padding will be applied around the measurement value to ensure that it remains easy to read.

Color

Specifies the shape border color.

Opacity

Specifies the shape border opacity.

Width

Specifies the line width, in millimeters.

Opacity

Specifies the actor opacity (between 0 and 255).

Color

Specifies the line color.

Type

Specifies the line style.

Show

Displays the border.

Width

Specifies the border line width, in millimeters.

Opacity

Specifies the border opacity (between 0 and 255).

Color

Specifies the border color.

Link

Defines the action performed when a user clicks an actor or hotspot in the viewport or in vector image output (see the Technical Illustration - Hotspots tab).

To create an event link:

1. Click in the Link field and then click .
2. In the Select a Link dialog box, select a link type in the URL field, specify an appropriate target for that type, and then click OK.

   See Select a Link.

3. To test the event in the viewport, disable Design Mode (status bar) and then click the actor or hotspot.

Pack linked resource

(Available when the Link property specifies a file:// URL.) Includes the linked file as part of the Composer document. To omit the file, clear this property and ensure that recipients of the document have the linked file in the same absolute path.

Pre symbol, Middle symbol, Post symbol

Specifies the pre-, middle-, or post-position GD&T symbol.

	None
	Straightness
	Flatness
	Circularity
	Cylindricity
	Line Profile
	Surface Profile
	Angularity
	Perpendicularity
	Parallelism
	Position
	Concentricity
	Symmetry
	Circular Runout
	Total Runout
	Projected Tolerance Zone
	Max. Material Condition
	Min. Material Condition
	Free State Variations
	Diameter
	Plus Minus
	Plus
	Minus
	Equal
	To be Defined

Pre string, Middle string, Post string

Specifies the pre-, middle-, or post-position string.