Arrow

Arrow

An Arrow annotation is used to represent different motions or actions of a component. There are two types of arrow annotations.

• Linear Arrow
• Circular Arrow

Command Access:

Home tabAnnotation panelLinear Arrow/Circular Arrow

Arrow Style

Controls the look of an arrow using the arrow style options.

• Fill - Fills the arrow with a specific color. Default is no fill.
• Outline - Sets color and width of the arrow border.
• Double head - Creates a double headed arrow.
• Style - Provides a list of preset arrow styles .

Arrow Position

Alters the position of an arrow using the different position options.

• Flip Direction - Reverses the arrow direction.
• Move - Moves the arrow to a different location.
• Align - Aligns arrow to a component edge.
• Keep on top - Arrow always in the foreground.

Arrow Position

Halo

• Halo - Applies a halo effect to the callout. The command is available only when the background is set to solid.
• Halo Gap - Adjusts the width of the halo effect. The command is available when Halo is checked.

Arrow Grip Editing

Selecting an arrow displays colored nodes that are used to edit various parameters of the arrow.

• Blue - Arrow size
• Orange - Arrow length and width
• Yellow - Arrowhead size

Grip Editing

Browser Representation

Each arrow created has a unique browser entry under AnnotationsArrows.

Note: Selecting an arrow in the browser highlights the arrow in the screen and vice versa.

Right-click Context menu

• Visibility - Controls the visibility of the selected arrow.
• Delete - Removes the selected arrow.
• Save Selection - Adds the selected arrow to the selection set.
• Flip Direction - Reverses arrow direction.