- [Narrator] When working with SolidWorks annotations,
it's really important to understand the difference
between an annotation and a note.
So if we go up here to the command manager,
you'll notice that all of these things,
all of this information that we drop into here
are all various forms of annotations,
we're annotating our drawing views.
But a lot of times,
we really focus on just some specific ones,
creating dimensions on our views,
adding a note and actual note on to the view,
or using things like balloons and whole call outs
to fill out the information.
So in this video,
I'm going to focus on the note feature specifically,
because it's the main tool
that we think of when we think of annotations,
you're annotating noting something down.
So I'm going to click on the note,
and I'm going to click again to create its position
up here in the top left hand corner.
And now just like you would inside of Microsoft PowerPoint,
you're basically provided with a text box
that you can edit any way you like
using the formatting tools,
oops and I just accidentally dragged that
into the window above that's why it popped there.
But right here, I can set all my various fonts,
the size, I can do it by height as well
if I don't want to use the font color,
if I need to color the text,
you know, Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough,
the various positions and alignments.
You can also fit the text to your specific window
and do things like add bullets, which is really handy.
So I usually start all typical notes with my cap locks on
and I'll write notes,
create a new line,
and I'll say one,
and usually I start with the material.
So I'll add that and let's say this is aluminum.
I'm going to add another note,
please use care to not scratch surfaces.
Okay.
And now when I'm done with that note,
I just click outside of it,
and you'll see that it actually gives me another note.
Now if I drag this around,
I can have a leader be propagated, which is really handy.
So I'm going to add another note over here,
I'm going to click on this ring, drag it over
and you'll see the leader automatically snaps around,
click again and give it a position.
And now I'm going to edit this note
because I don't want the same content,
I'm going to say, Greace Here.
All right, I'm going to click again.
And now again, it replicates this note,
and I could go drag it to another spot.
But now I'm going to hit the green checkmark to accept that.
I'm going to go back over here
and actually made that last note on accident as well.
So I'm going to zoom out, hit escape,
oh, it didn't, that was a graphics bug,
that can happen folks.
So watch out, sometimes when you're working with notes,
you can get a graphical bug.
So I was kind of surprised to see that up there myself.
But anyway, now that I've accepted these two notes,
I'm going to go back in here, I'm going to click on this note,
you see I already naturally just out of instinct,
went and grabbed it and repositioned it.
But you also have some fun features.
If you expand the property manager
over here on the left again,
you can edit the orientation,
so maybe you want the text to be angled,
that can be really handy.
Up or down.
Maybe you decide that you don't want a leader,
you can go down here below and turn that leader off,
or you can adjust what kind of leader it is.
Another thing that's really handy
if you need to call out grease in multiple spots
while you have this annotation selected,
hold down Control, go down here to where the arrow is,
and when this point is highlighted
and you see my little cursor
has a little white point next to it,
hold down your left mouse button,
click and drag and you will drag out another arrow,
and you can drop that and attach it to another point.
Now you have a multi leader annotation
that will stay together and snap together
when you move around,
but you get your call outs in multiple locations
without having to make multiple notes.
So spend some time looking through the various options
that you have with your notes here.
You can do a lot of fun stuff,
you can either control it through here,
or you can control it by double clicking
and editing the fonts here as well.
So just remember that you have
a couple of different options,
like with so many other SolidWorks features,
but it's a pretty simple feature.
It's either typically used like this
with some leaders attached to it,
or as a text box which you can then adjust its position
all over the drawing just by dragging and dropping it.