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Working with PMI Annotations

Owned by Lauralee Reinke (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Sun Feb 14, 2016 by Glen Yamakawa
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The PMI context menu
 Hide/show all annotations and annotation plane borders
  1. In the Workspace, click the Annotations browser icon to open the Annotations pane.
  2. To show/hide all planes, select/clear the Annotation Planes checkbox near the top of the listing. To show/hide an individual annotation plane, expand the Annotation Planes list, then select/clear the associated checkbox.
  3. In a similar manner, select/clear checkboxes associated with PMI entries.
 Highlight a surface or part associated with a PMI annotation
  1. In the Annotations pane, click the annotation listing. The selected annotation and associated surface, part, or annotation appear highlighted.

Note

You may also select an annotation by right-clicking it in the 3D scene.

No surface or part is associated with a Text PMI note.

 Position the view to better read an annotation plane
  1. Right-click an annotation to see the flyout menu. This can be done in either the Annotations pane or the 3D scene.
  2. Click View by Plane to re-positioned the view to better read other annotations on the plane.