SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Part V: Creating Drawings

FIGURE 22.3

Placing a note with a leader

You can also change settings for bent leaders by choosing Tools ➪ Options ➪ Document Properties.

It is recommended that you use the same bent leader lengths for all annotations, and save them in

the templates that you use.

Single-clicking inside an active text box places the cursor between letters, as expected. Double-

clicking inside an active text box selects the entire word that you click, again as expected. Ctrl+A

selects all the text inside a text box. If you double-click an existing note to activate it, the entire

contents are highlighted immediately. You also cannot drag-and-drop selected text to move it

within a text box. However, you can Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, and Ctrl+V the text.

To format the entire note, do not activate the text box; instead, only select the note, and apply the

setting to the entire note rather than to selected text within the note.

Add a leader to a note

To add a leader to a note that was created without a leader, click the note and select the leader

options in the Leader panel of the PropertyManager, as shown in Figure 22.4. After you add

the leader, you can reposition the handle at the end of the leader to attach it to an entity on the

drawing.

Multiple leaders

You can also attach multiple leaders to notes. To create a new note with multiple leaders, pre-select

the entities that the leaders are to be attached to, and then click the Note toolbar button.

To add a leader to an existing note, first click the note, and then Ctrl+drag the handle or small dot

on the end of a leader to the second location. A note with multiple leaders is shown in Figure 22.5.

To remove one of multiple leaders from a note, click the handle at the end of the arrow and press

Delete.