- [Instructor] When trying to copy your annotations
into multiple locations inside of a solid works drawing
or on a singular drawing view,
it can be very handy to leverage the linear
and circular pattern for notes.
So up here in our Annotation tab, it's the second one over,
mine is switched currently to circular note pattern
but whatever pattern you use last
is the one that's going to populate that spot.
By default you'll probably see the linear note pattern.
I'm going to just hit Esc to change that view back
to what you would expect to see.
But if you hit this drop down,
you can toggle between either linear
or circular note pattern.
And these are pretty straightforward.
As you can tell from the icon,
you start with one annotation
and create multiple others based on it.
What's nice about the solid works note pattern
is that you can also select multiple notes at one time.
So let's start with a linear note pattern.
I'm going to click on that button,
by default our first direction and second direction
are the X and Y axis.
You can change this to another sketch entity if you prefer,
but usually using the X and Y axis is a good way to go
and if you're doing a linear pattern in particular
our drawings are very orthogonal in nature
and typically that's going to be good enough.
So I'm going to start by going down here
and clicking on the box where it says notes to pattern
and selecting note one and note two over here.
And you can see now I have a yellow bounding box
showing the extent of both of these notes.
I'm going to go ahead and change my pattern counts to two
in both directions.
And when I do that, I can also adjust the distances.
I'm going to change the distances
in between each two, one inch.
I'm going to zoom out a little bit
so we can see this a little better.
And you'll notice here, I've got these dialog boxes
that pop up and give me the definition in each direction.
So if it's unclear
which direction you're working at each time,
direction one goes this way, direction two goes this way.
You can also do things by manually grabbing these points
and dragging them out to change distances if you want,
if maybe it's not an exact thing
but you're just trying to play it by here.
You can also drag it to the side in both directions
if you want to change the angle
and you can see that updating over here as I do that.
So I'm going to switch this back to 90 degrees straight up
with my one inch gap in each direction.
I'm just going to flip it so that direction goes downward.
I want to keep it inside of the bounds of my drawing
and I can do that in both directions as well
just by clicking on the reverse direction icon.
You can see down here, both of my notes are selected.
I have all of my other values in the instances,
the dimensions in between,
I'm going to adjust this back to one inch again.
Now that I've got everything set up the way that I like,
I go ahead and click the green OK check mark box
and all of my notes are created here.
Now, unlike other patterns, these are locked in space.
So I can grab these notes now that they exist
and move them all over the place.
I can also use the Move Entities feature
if I want to move them as a group.
So for example, I can select all of these hit Move Entities
and move them as a group from one point to another
to clean them up,
but can easily generate a number of those notes
very quickly.
Now let's say we want to do a circular pattern.
The reason that I find this useful
the most cases that I've seen anyway,
is when you're trying to do things
like define clock positions
or where your degree counts start.
So if you're trying to define 360 degrees,
what is zero for you?
So in this example, I want to show some clock positions.
So I'm going to start by putting a note
that says 12 right here, I'm going to go up to Annotation
and from the drop down
I'm going to select Circular Note Pattern.
Now, when you do that,
we get a very similar view in our property manager here
to what we typically see
when we're trying to make other circular patterns
inside of solid works specifically inside of sketches.
I always like to start by going down to the note
that we're going to pattern and selecting that first.
That usually gives us some kind of automatic response.
Now you can see by default, it's selected 0.1.
This was the only point visible inside of this drawing.
So I'm going to go down here and grab this point
and actually drag it back up to a center point
that I created ahead of time of my view and release it.
Now you can see my circular pattern is around this flange.
We've got 360 degrees of pattern.
That's all the way around, but you don't have to do that,
you can do a partial degree pattern
where you don't go all the way around
maybe you only go a portional way around.
You can also toggle on and off equal spacing,
you can also adjust the number of entities.
I'm going to stick with a natural 360 degree equal spacing
with four positions
because I want to show 12, six, three, and nine.
Again, I'm going to just click, OK, when I'm ready,
and now my note pattern is created
and I can go in here and adjust these manually six and nine
and they're positioned perfectly around my drawing view.
So pretty easy, both have some flexibility
like you have in any other sketch pattern that you create
but inside of drawings, this can speed up
a lot of your tedious note taking and note placement
especially when you want to go around an arc,
a circle or create, a more orthogonal pattern
with the linear note pattern.