About Annotations, Text Properties, Text Templates and Arrows

Drafting Toolbars

With these functionalities, you can add and edit text, tables, arrows and balloons in a diagram or within a symbol.

These commands are listed in Diagram Section and described in the Drafting User's Guide.

Annotations

You can create a text or a text with leader and associate it with an element.

Note: For more Information about text creation, see Creating Texts.

Properties of a text can be set (anchor point, font size, justification, etc.) either before or after creating it. As an example, you can apply a blank background to your text by selecting Area and Fill Geometry option in the text Properties.

Note: If you select Area and Fill Geometry for a text with leader, the blank background is also applied on the leader. It can be removed from the leader by modifying the annotations parameters. For more information about annotations parameters, see Drafting User's Guide: Administration: Setting Standard Parameters: Annotation Parameters.

Context Menu

When creating a text, you can click outside the Text Editor dialog box then select from the context menu:

Insert Attribute Link

These commands are described in the Drafting User's Guide.

Text Template

In Symbol Design, you can create a text template to be applied to a symbol. A link template can be inserted in your text.

Note: The text template creation and the link template creation is described in Drafting User's Guide: Managing Text and Table Templates: Working with Text and Table Templates.

In Functional & Logical Design, when placing this symbol in a diagram view, the convenient values are displayed. If you have insert a link template, the text will be replaced by the reference defined during the link template creation.

Note: If the object's attribute linked with the text template is modified (i.e. instance name, reference name), the text displayed in the diagram view is automatically updated with the new value.

In a diagram view, you can create text that will be associated to an existing element.

If the text is associated to a route, the position of the text depends on where you click the route. As an example, click the route on the left to position the text on the left side of the route.

Note: For more information about associated text, see the Drafting User's Guide: Working with Annotations: Working with Texts: Creating an Associated Text.