Creating Annotations

Once you have performed a deviation analysis, you can highlight some peculiar locations, add comments as Annotations, and organize them under annotation sets.

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About Deviation Check
  1. From the Control section, click Annotation .
    • If there is not annotation set yet:
      • A Deviation Check node is created.
      • An annotation set is created under Deviation Check.
      • The annotation is created under the annotation set.
    • If one annotation set exists, the annotation is created under this annotation set.
    • If several annotation sets exist, the annotation is created under the selected one.
      Note: Selecting an annotation selects the parent annotation set.
  2. If you are creating the first annotation of an annotation set, select a deviation analysis.

    Notes:
    • Once the deviation analysis is selected, you cannot select another one (Unless you exit by cancel).
    • If annotations already exist under the annotation set, their deviation analysis is automatically selected (No possible change).

  3. Place the pointer on the deviation analysis.
    The annotation is displayed in a black frame.
  4. Pick the location of the annotation anchor.
  5. Drag and drop the text of the annotation.
  6. Under Display, select the check boxes to define the display format of the annotations of the current annotation sets, before creating the annotations or later.
    • Name: Displays the name of the annotation as it appears in the tree.
    • X Y Z: Displays the coordinates of the anchor point of the annotation, that is, the point you wanted to highlight.
    • dX dY dZ: Displays the deviations at the anchor point, in the X, Y and Z direction:
    • Status: When the Tolerances are displayed in the Deviation Analysis, Status displays the status of the anchor point of the annotation with respect to the tolerances:
      • If the status is KO, a red light appears at the upper left corner of the annotation and the text of the annotation is displayed in red.
      • If the status is OK, a green light appears at the upper left corner of the annotation and the text of the annotation is displayed in green.
      • If the deviation value at the anchor point is positive, the status is OK if the deviation value is less or equal to the positive tolerance. Otherwise the status is KO.
      • If the deviation value at the anchor point is negative, the status is OK if the deviation absolute value is less or equal to the positive tolerance. Otherwise the status is KO.
      • If the Status check box is not selected or if the tolerances of the deviation analysis are not displayed, the annotation is displayed with no light.