Discover the power of using the Symbols command in annotation family organization in your projects. Learn how to efficiently schedule generic annotation families using the Noteblock schedule, add a centerline symbol, and prepare for the exploration of detail groups.
Key Insights
- The Symbols command allows users to place a generic annotation family in the current view, enhancing project organization capabilities.
- The Noteblock schedule becomes an efficient tool in scheduling generic annotation families, creating a systematic method of managing annotations.
- The tutorial provides an example of adding a centerline symbol to dimensions in the Enlarged Elevation Southwest Window view, demonstrating practical application of the Symbols command.
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In this video, we're going to look at a command called Symbols. This tool places a generic annotation family in the current view. You must have the desired generic annotation family loaded into your project, or you can use the Load Family button to locate one and import one.
You can schedule generic annotation families using the Noteblock schedule. If you go to View, Schedules, Noteblock, this creates a schedule of annotations added using the Symbol tool. So let's create one quickly.
If we go to our Enlarged Elevation Southwest Window view, what we're going to do is add a centerline symbol and add it to our dimensions. If you go to the Annotate tab in the ribbon, and then go to the Symbol pane, and select Symbol, and we can pick a family here from the Properties menu, and we'll just check Centerline. And you can see we can just place this centerline anywhere and we're just going to go ahead and place one at this detail line we drew and then rotate it 90 degrees counterclockwise here and then we'll just add a few more at the other mullions.
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We'll go to Copy, Multiple, and then we'll just use those detail lines we used before to add a centerline symbol at each of our centerlines that we drafted over the mullions. In the next video, we're going to go over something called Detail Groups, where you can take a series of detail elements and group them into one object and repeat it.