Annotation styles
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An annotation style is a named look for dimensions, notes and tags: font, size on paper, colour, bold or italic, the dimension ends (arrows, dots, ticks…), the leader end, the end size and the tag shape. Change a style and everything that uses it changes.
The style manager
Open File › Annotation styles…, Annotation styles… at the bottom of any Style menu in the tool options, or the button in a style's Properties.
- New or Duplicate makes a style. Set its text, ends and tag shape, and what it is Meant for (dimensions, notes, tags or any annotation).
- A live preview shows it.
- Select all N using it selects its users; Apply to N selected gives it to the selection.
- New ones get it makes it the default for new dimensions, notes or tags.
- Deleting a style returns its users to the default look.
Using styles
- The Dimension, Note and Tag tools have a Style menu in the tool options, for new annotations.
- A placed annotation's style is in its Properties, with New text style… to make one on the spot.
- Own colour overrides the style's colour for one annotation.
Sizes are millimetres on paper, so text is the same size at any scale. Styles can be copied from another project with File › Sheet templates… (importing a .creabim).