Place Note Enhancements

The Place Note tool includes many new tool settings that enable you to precisely place the note text and leader. The tool now supports multi-line as well as single-line text.

Expanded Place Note tool settings

The new settings include:

• Restore Style — restores the tool settings to the defaults set for either the Text Style or Dimension Style.

• Text Rotation — rotation of the text relative to the leader line.

• Annotation Scale Lock

• Location — whether the leader line can be placed in multiple segments.

• Leader Type — line or curve.

• Start At — whether the note is placed starting with the terminator or the text.

• Inline Leader — optional segment of the leader that is aligned with the text.

Dimension Styles for Place Note

The Dimension Styles dialog box has a new category, Place Note, that includes the settings for the leader (dimension) portion of the Place Note tool.

Dimension Styles dialog box, Place Note category

The Place Note category includes many of the settings of the Place Note tool, plus the following:

• Terminator — sets the terminator symbol to display. You can also choose a custom symbol, which is set in Note symbol defined in the Terminator Symbols category.

• Inline Leader — usage and length, in working units.

• Left Margin — distance, in working units, between the endpoint of the leader and the text.

• Lower Margin — defines the distance, in working units, between the top and bottom margins of the text, and the top and bottom edges of the text frame (if used).

• Horizontal Attachment, which defines how the note text is attached to the leader. Options include Left, Right, and Automatic.

• Edit About — position of the vertical origin to edit text about. Options include Top, Center, Bottom, and Automatic.

• Justification — controls the alignment of multiple lines of text. Below this control is a graphic that shows the effect of the current settings.