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Displaying Text and Annotations in Front of Other Entities

Use the TextToFront command to display text, dimensions, leaders, or all annotations in front of all the other entities. You can bring to front annotation entities of a specified category or all annotation entities at once.

Annotation entities such as text, dimensions, and leaders on locked, turned off, or frozen layers are also sent to the front of the drawing.

To display text and annotations in front of other entities:

  1. Click Tools > Display Order > Bring Annotations to Front and specify the category of entities to reorder (or type TextToFront):
    • Text Only: Moves text on top of all other entities.

      This option applies to Note and SimpleNote entities.

    • Dimensions Only: Moves dimensions on top all other entities.
    • Leaders Only: Moves leaders on top of all other entities.

      This option applies to leader, smart leader, and multi leader entities.

    • All Annotation Entities: Moves all annotations on top of all other entities.
  2. Press Enter.

When sending multiple entities of the same type to the front, the entities remain in the same display order in relation to each other.

Note: The TextToFront command ignores text inside Table, Tolerance, Block and External Reference entities.

Access

Command: TextToFront

Menu: Tools > Display Order > Bring Annotations to Front

Ribbon: View > Bring to Front > Bring All Annotations to Front

Related Topics

Display Order

Layer Tools

Managing Layers



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