ADDING ANNOTATIONS IN SKETCHBOOK DESIGNE

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Autodesk® Design SuiteAutodesk® SketchBook® Designer 2012

Adding AnnotationsSketchBook Designer

In this section you will learn the following:• How to create text and select existing text

• How to change text properties

• Best practices for adding comments

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Design Suite 2012 Designer 2012– Tip Guides

Adding Annotations in SketchBook Designer

In this section you will learn the following: text and select existing text

How to change text properties

Best practices for adding comments

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1. Annotation, redlining, and markups are frequent operations when working on a project. In other applications, like Autodesk®

need to do some quick redlining or commenting over a drawing, and Sketchbook Designer can help. You may even want to leave those comments as part of your deliverable, if you are in a very early phase of the project. In this particular case, Sketchbook Designer is ideal.

2. We have the 3D model of our project in AutoCAD. The principal needs to make some comments, but he’s not trained in AutoCAD. He would normally get a plotting of the building, and redline on paper.

3. Let’s use an option in AutoCAD’s Sketchbook Designer Ribbon called New Layout. It will enable us to define the properties of the paper directly from here.

4. Specify the resolution in DPI and the paper size, and you’re all set.

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Annotation, redlining, and markups are frequent operations when working on a project. In other ® Design Review, these tasks are relatively simple. But sometimes you may

need to do some quick redlining or commenting over a drawing, and Sketchbook Designer can help. You may even want to leave those comments as part of your deliverable, if you are in a very early

this particular case, Sketchbook Designer is ideal.

We have the 3D model of our project in AutoCAD. The principal needs to make some comments, but he’s not trained in AutoCAD. He would normally get a plotting of the building, and redline on paper.

use an option in AutoCAD’s Sketchbook Designer Ribbon called New Layout. It will enable us to define the properties of the paper directly from here.

Specify the resolution in DPI and the paper size, and you’re all set.

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Annotation, redlining, and markups are frequent operations when working on a project. In other tively simple. But sometimes you may

need to do some quick redlining or commenting over a drawing, and Sketchbook Designer can help. You may even want to leave those comments as part of your deliverable, if you are in a very early

We have the 3D model of our project in AutoCAD. The principal needs to make some comments, but he’s not trained in AutoCAD. He would normally get a plotting of the building, and redline on paper.

use an option in AutoCAD’s Sketchbook Designer Ribbon called New Layout. It will enable us to

ADDING ANNOTATIONS IN SKETCHBOOK DESIGNE

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5. The next step is to create a viewport in AutoCAD, using your the Rectangle option in the Viewports tab.

6. Now we need to go to the Sketchbook Designer tab in the Ribbon, and create a canvas. This canvas only needs to have Paint Underlay on.

7. Once in Sketchbook Designer, we’preference.

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The next step is to create a viewport in AutoCAD, using your preferred method. In this case, we will use the Rectangle option in the Viewports tab.

Now we need to go to the Sketchbook Designer tab in the Ribbon, and create a canvas. This canvas only needs to have Paint Underlay on.

Once in Sketchbook Designer, we’ll use a Paint layer to do some redlining with a brush of your

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preferred method. In this case, we will use

Now we need to go to the Sketchbook Designer tab in the Ribbon, and create a canvas. This canvas

ll use a Paint layer to do some redlining with a brush of your

ADDING ANNOTATIONS IN SKETCHBOOK DESIGNE

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8. Now we want to add some text. You can simply handwrite with a brush, especially if you are using a stylus. You can also use Text. In that case, the Text needs tocreate one using the Marking Menu.

9. Once we are in a vector layer as a current layer, we’ll see the toolbar that corresponds to vector content, and Text is located in that toolbar. Click on Text, select a location,create text.

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Now we want to add some text. You can simply handwrite with a brush, especially if you are using a stylus. You can also use Text. In that case, the Text needs to be done in a Vector layer, so we have to create one using the Marking Menu.

Once we are in a vector layer as a current layer, we’ll see the toolbar that corresponds to vector content, and Text is located in that toolbar. Click on Text, select a location, and now you can intuitively

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Now we want to add some text. You can simply handwrite with a brush, especially if you are using a be done in a Vector layer, so we have to

Once we are in a vector layer as a current layer, we’ll see the toolbar that corresponds to vector and now you can intuitively

ADDING ANNOTATIONS IN SKETCHBOOK DESIGNE

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10. You can of course change size, font, color, and pretty much any property that you normally have available in a basic text component. Click on the check mark to finish the command.

11. To select the text, you need to be within the Text command. If you click on the screen where there’s text, you’ll select the existing one. If you click where there’s no text, you’ll create a new one.

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You can of course change size, font, color, and pretty much any property that you normally have available in a basic text component. Click on the check mark to finish the command.

text, you need to be within the Text command. If you click on the screen where there’s text, you’ll select the existing one. If you click where there’s no text, you’ll create a new one.

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You can of course change size, font, color, and pretty much any property that you normally have

text, you need to be within the Text command. If you click on the screen where there’s text, you’ll select the existing one. If you click where there’s no text, you’ll create a new one.

trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the

ferings, and specifications and pricing at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or