Creating Isolated Annotations

You can create isolated annotations, i.e. annotations that are not linked to any geometry.

You can create the following types of isolated annotations:

  • Text
  • Text with Leader
  • Text Parallel to Screen
  • Flag Note
  • Flag Note with Leader
  • Datum Element
  • Datum Target
  • Geometrical Tolerance
  • Surface Texture
  • Note Object Attribute (Instantiated from Catalog Browser)
Important:

  • Creating isolated dimensions is not possible.

  • Isolated annotations are not semantic. You cannot convert them to semantic annotations.

  • When you add a leader to an isolated annotation, or when you create an isolated annotation with leader (such as a text with leader or a flag note with leader), this leader will not be associative.

Before you begin: Open an existing 3D shape.
  1. Activate the Front View.x annotation plane.



  2. From the Annotation section of the action bar, Click Text .
  3. Click anywhere outside the geometry in the 3D area.
    The Text Editor dialog box appears.
  4. Enter Needs to be reviewed and then click OK.
    The text is created in the specified annotation plane. You can now select it and drag it anywhere: it will remain in the annotation plane.



    The note entity, Text.x, is added to the tree. A specific symbol identifies this annotation as being isolated.