Grouping Annotations Manually

You can group manually and order annotations.

Before you begin: Open an existing 3D shape.
See Also
Grouping Annotations During Creation
Grouping Annotations Automatically
  1. Click Manual Grouping .
  2. Select Surface Treatment (Text.1) as the reference (driving) annotation.


  3. Select Surface (Text.2) as the driven annotation to be grouped.


    The Positioning dialog box appears. Text.1 is the active reference annotation.



    There are six settings:

    • Align Bottom the selected annotation according to the reference.
    • Align Top the selected annotation according to the reference.
    • Align Right the selected annotation according to the reference.
    • Align Left the selected annotation according to the reference.
    • Center Horizontally the selected annotation according to the reference.
    • Set the Offset between the selected annotation and the reference.

    Annotations are grouped according to the dialog box settings; select Align Bottom and offset as 0mm. Text.1 reference annotation is orange framed.



  4. Click Align Top in the Positioning dialog box.
    Surface (Text.2) is aligned to the top of Surface Treatment (Text.1).



  5. Set the Offset to 5mm in the Positioning dialog box.
    Surface (Text.2) is aligned to the top of Surface Treatment (Text.1).



  6. Select Other Surface (Text.3) as the new driven annotation.


    Text.2 the previous driven annotation becomes the new active reference (driving) annotation in the Positioning dialog box.



    Text.2 reference annotation is orange framed. Text.3 annotation is the grouped annotation.