Notes in model view

[rikonen]

I'm trying to make notes to a part and I'm using the note function but when I finish typing my note and end the note it just disappears. How can I keep this note visible so I can make a pdf file and send it to my customer?

Thanks

 

[Theophilus]

Right-click the Annotations at the top of your feature tree and select Show Annotations. They should show up.

I normally have Show Feature Dimensions unchecked and Show Reference Dimensions checked.

Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.

 

[rikonen]

I tried as you suggested and still not able to place notes in the the model view without them disappearing. I set the same options that you suggest.

 

[Theophilus]

Do you have Enable Annotation View Visibility checked in the same area (right-click on Annotations)? If so, uncheck it and see what you get when you try to create a note. If you don't use the Annotation Views feature, you may also want to uncheck the Automatically Place into Annotation Views option.

Not sure if that's what you're set to, but I would think this is your problem. (Either that, or you're having some graphics-related glitches.)

Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.

 

[rikonen]

I tried just creating a block and trying the same thing and it works fine. The file I'm working with is a Solidworks file and was supplied by the customer. I've been looking for a setting that may be different between the block file and the one supplied but don't see anything different to speak of. Any other idea's, when I create the note and type in my information then click the screen my note floats for placement with my cursor, when I click again it allows me to edit the information, click again and it's floating again. Accept the note by clicking on the green arrow and the note disapears.

 

[rikonen]

strangely enough if I save the part out into a new file everything works. for the short term I guess this will do, would be nice to know why it does not work in the other file though.