Annotate Tab

Text Notes Dimensioning Tables Detailing Cells Patterns Terrain Model
Figure 1. Annotate Ribbon

Text

Settings Description
Place Text 		Allows you to place a text element(s).
Edit Text 		Allows you to edit text in a text, text node, or dimension element to replace, add, or delete characters.
Change Text Attributes 		Allows you to change selected text-specific element attributes of a text or tag element(s).
Spell Checker 		Allows you to review text, text nodes, tags, dimensions, notes and symbols for spelling errors.
Match Text Attributes

Allows you to set the active text settings (such as Justification, Font, Line Spacing Type, Underline, Slant Angle, and Inter Character Spacing) the same as the corresponding attributes of text in the design.

Place Text Along 		Allows you to place text relative to line segment (line element or segment of a line string, shape, or multi-line).
Find/Replace

Allows you to search all the text in a DGN file for any sequence of letters and numbers and replace some or all instances of the text with other text.

Display Text Attributes

Allows you display the attributes of a text or multi-line text node element.

Copy/Increment Text 		Allows you to copy and increment a text element that contains numbers.
Copy Enter Data Field 		Allows you to copy the contents of one enter data field to another.
Copy/Increment Enter Data Fields

Allows you to copy and increment the contents of an enter data field that contains numbers into another enter data field.

Fill in Single Enter-data Fields

Allows you to fill in or change and enter data field.

Auto Fill in Enter Data Fields 		Allows you to fill in all empty enter data fields in a view.
Change Case 		Allows you to change the case of a piece of text.
Update All Fields 		Allows you to update all fields in the text elements in the active model or file.
Drop Text 		Allows you to convert the text characters in a text element to the individual elements that are used to draw the characters - lines, line strings, arcs, ellipses, and shapes.
Text Style 		Allows you to create and modify text styles. Also sets the active text style or, if a style is not active, the active text attributes.

Notes

Settings Description
Place Note 		Allows you to place lines of text with a leader line and arrow, or a callout without a leader.

Dimensioning

Settings Description
Dimension Element 		Allows you to dimension an element.
Dimension Linear 		Allows you to dimension the linear distance between two points (length).
Dimension Angle 		Allows you to dimension angles. Each dimension (except the first) is computed from the endpoint of the previous dimension.
Dimension Radial 		Allows you to place a radial dimension on an element.
Dimension Ordinates 		Allows you to label distances along an axis from an origin (datum) along the ordinate axis (the line along which the distances are measured).
Dimension Center 		Allows you to place a center mark at the center of a circle or arc.
Change or Match Dimension
Change Dimension- Allows you to change a dimension element to the active dimension attributes.

Match Dimension Attributes- Allows you to set the active dimension settings to the dimension attributes of a dimension element.

Drop Dimension Element 		Allows you to break up a dimension element(s) into lines, line strings, ellipses, arcs, and text.
Reassociate Dimensions 		Allows you to reassociate a linear or radial dimension to an element.
Insert Dimension 		Allows you to add an extension line to a dimension element.
Remove Dimension 		Allows you to remove an extension line from a dimension element.
Dimension Audit 		Allows you to search all the dimensions in the active model and report any problems.
Dimension Styles 		Allows you to create and modify dimension styles. Also sets the active dimension style (or, if a style is not active, the active dimension settings).

Tables

Settings Description
Place Table 		Allows you to place a table in the model.
Style Manager 		Allows you to manage style

Detailing

Settings Description
Section Callout 		Allows you to place a section callout and, optionally, create a saved view and automate dynamic views.
Detail Callout 		Allows you to place a detail callout and, optionally, create a saved view and automate dynamic views.
Elevation Callout 		Allows you to place a single elevation callout or an interior elevation callout.
Plan Callout 		Allows you to place a plan callout and optionally, create a saved view and automating dynamic views.
Drawing Boundary 		Allows you to place a drawing boundary in a model.
Cloud by Points 		Allows you to place a revision cloud.
Cloud on Element 		Allows you to create a revision cloud by modifying or copying an existing element.
Detailing Symbol Styles 		Allows you to create and modify detailing symbol styles.

Cells

Settings Description
Place Active cell 		Allows you to place the Active Cell.
Place Active Cell Matrix 		Allows you to place a matrix of the Active Cell.
Replace Cells 		Allows you to replace single or multiple cells in a model, or to update cells in a model, with cells of the same name from the active cell library.
Select and Place Cell 		Allows you to select a cell in the DGN file and place an additional instance(s) of that cell.
Define Cell Origin

Allows you toto define the cell origin (the point about which the cell is placed).

Place Active Line Terminator

Allows you to place the Active Line Terminator cell on a line, line string, arc, or complex chain, primarily to place arrowheads. The line terminator maintains association with the element on which it is placed. Thus, if you move or rotate the element, the line terminator moves or rotates along with the element.

Place Cell Index 		Allows you to create and place a cell index. A cell index contains all of the models in the active DGN file that are marked as "Can be placed as cell."
Cell Selector 		Allows you to select a cell library from the Select Cell Library to Load dialog opens the Cell Selector dialog, which is used to find and place cells.
Identify Cell 		Allows you to display the name and level of a cell in the design.
Cells 		Allows you to attach cell libraries and activate different types of cells, if one is attached.

Patterns

Settings Description
Hatch Area 		Allows you to hatch an area. Elements used to define the area to be hatched can be in the active model, or in references.
Crosshatch Area 		Allows you to crosshatch an area. Elements used to define the area to be crosshatched can be in the active model, or in references.
Pattern Area 		Allows you to pattern an area by tiling the active pattern cell or AutoCAD pattern. Elements used to define the area to be patterned can be in the active file, or in references.
Match Pattern Attributes 		Allows you to pattern an area by tiling the active pattern cell or AutoCAD pattern. Elements used to define the area to be patterned can be in the active file, or in references.
Change Pattern 		Allows you to change an existing pattern to:
  • Match the current attributes and/or pattern parameters.
  • Redefine the intersection point of the patterning.
  • Re-flood the area.
Delete Pattern 		Allows you to delete patterning.
Linear Pattern

Allows you to draw or "tile"a pattern along an existing linear element. That is, to replace the linear element with repetitions of the pattern cell.

Show Pattern Attributes 		Allows you to display the Pattern Angle and Pattern Scale attributes of a pattern element.

Terrain Model

Settings Description
Label Terrain Contours 		Allows you to place additional labels for elevation on selected contours.
Label Terrain Spots 		Allows you to label elevations at specific locations on the terrain model.
Import LandXML terrain Model 		Allows you to create a terrain model element by importing from a LandXML file.
Label Coordinates 		Allows you to label coordinate points in the design by entering a data point.
Label Element 		Allows you to label the coordinates of elements. When you label an element, all of the element's key points are labelled (all vertices and the origin).
Export Coordinates 		Allows you to export coordinates of elements to an ASCII text file.
Import Coordinates 		Allows you to import coordinates from an ASCII text file and place them as points, text, or cells.