You can annotate any of the element types in HAMMER CONNECT.

To work with annotations, open the Element Symbology manager: click View > Element Symbology (Ctrl+1).

Use the Element Symbology manager to control the way that elements and their associated labels are displayed.

Note that element types that are not used in the current model are marked with an icon.

The dialog box contains a pane that lists each element type along with the following controls:

• Symbology Definition: The menu lists all of the available element symbology definitions. Click the ellipsis (...) button to open the Symbology Definitions Manager.
• New: Opens a submenu containing the following commands:
  • New Annotation—Opens the Annotation Properties dialog box, allowing you to define annotation settings for the highlighted element type.
  • New Color Coding—Opens the Color Coding Properties dialog box, allowing you to define annotation settings for the highlighted element type.
  • Add Folder—Creates a folder under the currently highlighted element type, allowing you to manage the various color coding and annotation settings that are associated with an element. You can turn off all of the symbology settings contained within a folder by clearing the check box next to the folder. When a folder is deleted, all of the symbology settings contained within it are also deleted.
• Delete: Deletes the currently highlighted Color Coding or Annotation Definition or folder.
• Rename: Renames the currently highlighted object.
• Edit: Opens a Properties dialog box that corresponds with the selected background layer.
• Refresh Element Symbology: Opens a shortcut menu containing the following options:
  • Refresh Element Symbology - This can be useful if your color-coding and/or annotations are applied to a subset of elements using a query-based selection set. For performance reasons, query-based selection sets are treated as static selection sets by default. Use this option to refresh the query based selection set while refreshing element symbology.
  • Refresh Annotation - If you change an annotation's prefix or suffix in the Property Editor, or directly in the database, selecting this command refreshes the annotation.
  • Update Annotation Offset - If you have adjusted the Initial X or Y offsets, selecting this command resets all annotation X or Y offsets to the currently specified "initial offset" location.
  • Update Annotation Height - If you've adjusted the height multiplier, selecting this command resets all annotation heights multipliers to the currently specified initial height multiplier.
• Shift Up: Moves the currently highlighted object up in the list pane.
• Shift Down: Moves the currently highlighted object down in the list pane.
• Drawing Style: This button is only available in the Stand-Alone version (not in MicroStation, AutoCAD, or ArcGIS versions. Opens a menu containing the following commands:
  • CAD Style-Displays currently highlighted element in CAD Style. Objects displayed in CAD style will appear smaller when zoomed out and larger when zoomed in.
  • GIS Style-Displays currently highlighted element in GIS style. Objects displayed in GIS style will appear to remain the same size regardless of zoom level.
• Tree: Opens a menu containing the following commands:
  • Expand All-Expands each branch in the tree view pane.
  • Collapse All-Collapses each branch in the tree view pane
• Help: Displays online help for the Element Symbology Manager.

The Element Symbology manager supports Copy/Paste functionality as well as Undo/Redo capability. You can copy/paste annotations, color coding definitions, and folders by right-clicking them and selecting Copy/Paste. When a folder is copied in this way all of the contents of that folder are also copied.