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Annotation Style Editor

In one sentence: Creates and manages named annotation style presets that control text height, font, arrow type, and colour across all Draft annotations.

Overview

Workbench: Draft
Menu: Draft → Annotation → Annotation Style Editor
Command: Draft_AnnotationStyleEditor

Named styles are applied to Text, Dimension, and Label objects via their Style property. Changing the style definition updates all objects using that style at once.

Style properties

Property Applies to
Font Name Text, Dimension, Label
Font Size Text, Dimension, Label
Font Color Text, Dimension, Label
Line Width Dimension, Label
Line Color Dimension, Label
Arrow Type Dimension, Label
Arrow Size Dimension, Label
Show Unit Dimension
Decimal Places Dimension
Scale multiplier All

Workflow

  1. Open the Style Editor (Draft → Annotation → Annotation Style Editor).
  2. Click New and give the style a name (e.g. A4-standard).
  3. Set all properties for the style.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Select annotation objects in the model.
  6. In the Properties panel, set the Style property to the named style.

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