Notes

A note is free text on a drawing or a sheet, with or without a leader arrow pointing at something. The project also has a notepad of its own, for notes and to-dos that never print.

Writing a note

1. Pick the Note tool (N, with nothing selected).
2. With Leader on (in the tool options), click what the note points at, then where its text goes. With Leader off, one click places the text.
3. Type the text in Properties: the text box is ready to type into. Enter adds a line.

If the leader's point snapped onto an element, it follows that element when it moves.

Long text

• Wrap at: give the note a width on paper, and its lines wrap to it. Off, each line runs as long as it is.
• Markdown: the note reads # heading (in capitals, underlined), - bullets, 1. numbered lines and - [ ] / - [x] checkboxes. A list item's later lines are set in under it. **bold** and *italic* marks are dropped on paper.
• The text box in Properties scrolls; the button at its corner pops it out into a large editor. Double-clicking a note on a sheet opens the large editor too.
• An area set to Notes (its view-type menu) shows the selected note's text large, as Blender's text editor does, with Lists and headings.

On sheets

Pick the Note tool on a sheet, outside any viewport, to write on the paper itself: general notes, title notes. Its X and Y can be typed, in millimetres on the sheet (in a view, as lengths).

Moving and styling

With the Select tool, drag a note's text to move it, its square grip at the arrow to move the leader's end, and its round grip to bend the leader at an elbow (Straighten the leader in Properties takes the elbow out). Leader end in Properties picks an arrow, a dot or nothing for this note. Pick a Style, or an Own colour, as for dimensions; the note's text style can be edited in its own section. See Annotation styles.

Notes are a visibility category: a view can hide them (see Visibility).

The notepad

The project's notepad holds To-dos and Notes: what to check, what the client asked, what to draw next. It is kept in the project file and never printed. Open it from the Notes and to-dos tab of Properties, or show it large in an area: set the area's view-type menu to Notes with no note selected.

• Type in the line at the top and press Enter to add an item, as a to-do or a note.
• Each item is one row: a tick (to-do) or a dot (note), its first line, then its link, edit and delete at the right. Click a row's text to edit it in place; click away to close it.
• Link to the selection ties an item to the element selected, or else to the view in front. Its link button then selects the element or opens the view.
• The ⋯ menu: Copy all, Save as text (.txt)…, Save as Markdown (.md)… and Remove the done to-dos.