About Annotation Objects

Annotation objects include dimensions, notes, and other types of explanatory symbols or objects commonly used to add information to your drawing.

Annotation objects provide information about a feature, such as the length of a wall, the diameter of a fastener, or a detail callout. Typically, annotation objects are scaled differently than the views of the drawing, and depend on the scale of how they should appear when plotted.

You can control the method that an annotation object is scaled by defining the object either as non-annotative or annotative.

The following lists the common annotations you can create in a drawing.

Annotation Drawing Object

Notes and labels

Single-line text

Multiline text

Tabular data

Table

Dimensions and geometric tolerances

Dimension

Geometric tolerance

Hatches, gradients, and fills

Hatch

Notes and symbols with leaders

Leader

Multileader

Title blocks and attributes

Block

Attribute definition