Note Properties Dialog Box
General
Define the properties of a model annotation or part model sketch text. The dialog box is related to the functions
- Add a Text to a Sketch.
- Add a Text (Annotation) to a Part Model.
- Add a Text (Annotation) to an Assembly.
- You can edit an an existing annotation or text by selecting it and then selecting the context-sensitive function Properties or by double-clicking the text.
Dialog Box Options
- Text
- Type the text in the Text field.
- You can enter more than one line.
- Create a line break by pressing the Enter key.
- Select the insertion point for the text by clicking the radio button.
- Superscript
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Click the button and type the superscript text in the Text window.
- The superscript mode remains in effect until you click the button
- Subscript
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Click the button and type the subscript text in the Text window.
- The subscript mode remains in effect until you click the button
- Normal text
- Restore superscript text or subscript text to normal text by clicking the button.
- Special characters
- Search for special characters in the table that opens.
- Text macros
- Search for existing text macros
- #$DATE# adds the date.
- #$TIME# adds the time. (Based on computer time).
- #$USERNAME# adds the user's user ID.
- #PROREG.PROJ# adds the label of the active project.
- #MODREG.MOD_ID# adds the archive label of the model.
- Framed text
- Add a framed text \[ x \]
- Only used for annotations, not for sketch.
- Replace x in the string with the text to be framed.
- Height
- Defines the height of the text in millimeters. The height also depends on the scale.
- When the scale is 1:1, the text height corresponds to the value entered.
- If the scale is 1:10, for example, the 3.5mm text will be displayed as 35mm high.
- Angle
- Defines the direction angle of the text.
- Scale
- Defines the scale of the text, i.e. affects the height of the text.
- Curvature
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- Only available in sketch mode.
- Letter spacing
- Defines the distance between letters. Letter spacing is a factor that has an effect on the space between characters. Letter spacing is relative to the character height.
- The default letter spacing is 0.
- The space between letters is increased if the value is greater than 0.
- The space between letters is decreased if the value is negative. In this case, the characters overlap.
- Width
- Defines the relative width of the character. The character width is given as a factor.
- The character narrows if the value is less than 1.
- The character becomes wider if the value is greater than 1.
- Font
- Defines the used font.
- Only available in sketch mode.
- Color
- Defines the color of text.
- Only used for annotations, not for sketch.
- Connection
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- Only used for annotations, not for sketch.
- Mirrored
- Mirrors the text.
- Only available in a sketch.
- Boxed
- This function will draw a box around the text.
- Single line
- The function adds the text as a single line text.
- Has arrow
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- Only used for annotations, not for sketch.