Attaching a Note

You can attach longer comments as a markup note with AutoVue’s Markup Control Note Editor. A note displays in the workspace as a standard size graphical symbol

. Each note is labelled as Note<n>—where n represents the numerical order of occurrence of the note (for example, the first note is labelled as Note1). To read the note, double-click the entity to open it or move the mouse over the entity to display the tooltip.

From the Markup menu, select Add Entity, and then select Note.

The Attach To dialog box appears.

Note: From the Markup Entity toolbar, you can also click Note .

In the Attach To dialog box, click the entity type that you want to attach the note to.

See 3D Snapping Modes

Select the entity on the model that you want to attach a note to.

The Markup Control Note Editor window appears.

Type the text that you want in the window.

To change the font, from the Formatting menu, select Font, and then select the font type.

From the File menu, select Quit to close the Markup Control Note Editor.

The note symbol appears on the entity and in the Markup Navigation Tree.

Right-click outside the note area to complete the modification.

Note: To edit a note, double-click on the note to open the Markup Control Note Editor window.

Note: Whenever an entity is attached to a 3D model, the anchor point (the point at which the entity is attached) is highlighted by a small square. The square is visible only when the anchor point is visible. This feature allows you to precisely identify the location of the anchor point and whether the associated entities are visible or hidden.

Viewing and Printing the List of Notes

You can view a list of the notes you added to a file. You can also print the notes or find a note in the workspace.

From the Markup menu, select Print Notes.
The List Notes dialog box appears.

To find a note, select the note from the list and click Go To.

AutoVue zooms into the selected note in the workspace.

Note: You can also select the note from the Markup Navigation Tree, right-click, and select Go To.

To print a note, select the note from the list.

Note: To print more than one note, press the Shift or Control key while selecting. To print all the notes in the list, click Select All.

Click Print.
The Note Print Options dialog box appears.

Note: To print each selected note on a separate page, select One Note Per Page.

Configure the print options, then click OK.

The selected notes are printed with their unique headers (for example, Note1, Note2, and so on.)

Click OK to close the List Notes dialog box.