TechDraw Annotation
Appearance
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| Menu location |
|---|
| TechDraw → Annotations → Text Annotation |
| Workbenches |
| TechDraw |
| Default shortcut |
| None |
| Introduced in version |
| - |
| See also |
| TechDraw RichTextAnnotation |
Description
The TechDraw Annotation tool adds a text block to a drawing page.
Annotation in the drawing page
Usage
- If there are multiple drawing pages in the document: optionally activate the desired page by selecting it in the Tree View.
- There are several ways to invoke the tool:
- Press the
Text Annotation button.
- Select the TechDraw → Annotations →
Text Annotation option from the menu.
- Press the
- If there are multiple drawing pages in the document and you have not yet activated a page, the Page Chooser dialog box opens:
- Select the desired page.
- Press the OK button.
- A text block containing Default Text appears on the page.
- Use the Property View to change the text.
- Optionally drag the Annotation to the different position.
Modifying the annotation through the Property View
Notes
- Some characters interfere with the internal representation of the Annotation text. Specifically, these are the double quote
", less than<, and greater than>symbols; these must be replaced by HTML escape characters,",<, and>respectively. See Character encodings in HTML for details.
Properties
The Annotation inherits all applicable basic View properties except DataScale. Use the DataText Size property instead.
- DataText: The text to be displayed.
- DataFont: The name of the font to use. Annotation will use the best match of installed fonts.
- DataText Color: The color of the text.
- DataText Size: The size of the text in mm.
- DataMax Width: The maximum width of the Annotation block. -1 indicates no maximum width.
- DataLine Space: Line spacing adjustment (%).
- DataText Style: "Normal", "Bold", "Italic", "Bold-Italic"
Scripting
See also: Autogenerated API documentation and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.
The New Annotation tool can be used in macros and from the Python Console by using the following functions:
anno = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject('TechDraw::DrawViewAnnotation','TestAnno')
anno.Text = ['Different Text']
anno.TextStyle = 'Bold'
rc = page.addView(anno)
- Page: New Page, New Page From Template, Update Template Fields, Redraw Page, Print All Pages, Export Page as SVG, Export Page as DXF
- TechDraw Views: New View, Broken View, Section View, Complex Section View, Detail View, Projection Group, Clip Group, Insert SVG, Bitmap Image, Share View, Project Shape
- Views From Other Workbenches: Active View, Draft View, BIM View, Spreadsheet View
- Dimensions: Dimension, Length Dimension, Horizontal Length Dimension, Vertical Length Dimension, Radius Dimension, Diameter Dimension, Angle Dimension, Angle Dimension From 3 Points, Area Annotation, Horizontal Extent Dimension, Vertical Extent Dimension, Repair Dimension References
- Hatching: Image Hatch, Geometric Hatch
- Symbols: Weld Symbol, Surface Finish Symbol, Hole/Shaft Fit
- Stacking: Stack Top, Stack Bottom, Stack Up, Stack Down
- Attributes/Modifications: Select Line Attributes, Cascade Spacing and Delta Distance, Change Line Attributes, Extend Line, Shorten Line, Toggle View Lock, Position Section View, Align Horizontal Chain Dimensions, Align Vertical Chain Dimensions, Align Oblique Chain Dimensions, Cascade Horizontal Dimensions, Cascade Vertical Dimensions, Cascade Oblique Dimensions, Area Annotation, Arc Length Annotation, Customize Format Label
- Centerlines/Threading: Circle Centerlines, Bolt Circle Centerlines, Cosmetic Thread Hole Side View, Cosmetic Thread Hole Bottom View, Cosmetic Thread Bolt Side View, Cosmetic Thread Bolt Bottom View, Cosmetic Intersection Vertices, Offset Vertex, Cosmetic 1 Point Circle, Cosmetic 2 Point Circle, Cosmetic 3 Point Circle, Cosmetic Arc, Cosmetic Parallel Line, Cosmetic Perpendicular Line
- Format/Organize Dimensions Horizontal Chain Dimension, Vertical Chain Dimension, Oblique Chain Dimension, Horizontal Coordinate Dimension, Vertical Coordinate Dimension, Oblique Coordinate Dimension, Horizontal Chamfer Dimension, Vertical Chamfer Dimension, Arc Length Dimension, Insert '⌀' Prefix, Insert '□' Prefix, Insert 'n×' Prefix, Remove Prefix, Increase Decimal Places, Decrease Decimal Places
- Annotations: Text Annotation, Rich Text Annotation, Balloon Annotation, Axonometric Length Dimension
- Add Lines: Leader Line, Centerline on Face, Centerline Between 2 Lines, Centerline Between 2 Points, Cosmetic Line Through 2 points, Edit Line Appearance, Toggle Edge Visibility
- Add Vertices: Cosmetic Vertex, Midpoint Vertices, Quadrant Vertices
- Miscellaneous: Remove Cosmetic Object
- Additional: Line Groups, Templates, Hatching, Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, Preferences
- Getting started
- Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
- Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate
- Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
- Workbenches: Std Base, Assembly, BIM, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Material, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework
- Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub
