Creating an Associated Text

This task shows you how to create a text that will be associated to an existing element. This text will remain associated with this element. You can set text properties either before or after you create the text.
Open the Brackets_views03.CATDrawing document. Create two diameter dimensions, for example.

  1. Click the Text icon in the Annotations toolbar.
     

  2. Select the element to which you want to associate a text.
    Here, we will use a dimension. You can associate the text either to the dimension line or to the extension line by clicking the appropriate element. Click the dimension line as in our example.
     

    The green text frame is displayed as well as the Text Editor dialog box.

  3. Enter the text to be created in the Text Editor dialog box or directly on the drawing. For example, enter "diameter".
     

  4. Click in the free space or click the Select icon to end the text creation.

  5. If needed, select the dimension and move it  to the desired location.
     

    The text remains associated to the dimension.
     


     

    • Note that the text is associative to the whole selected element. In other words, in the case of a dimension, if you move the dimension text exclusively, the associated text will not move accordingly.
    • When creating associated texts, pressing the SHIFT key lets you change the orientation of the text as regards the element to which it is associated.
    • You can associate text to the following elements:
      • Annotations: text, datum feature, datum target, balloon, geometrical tolerance, roughness symbol, weld symbols.
      • Dimensions
      • 2D elements: point, circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola.
      • Generative edges