Text and Dots

Two ways to write on a drawing. Text is a real annotation object that lives on the sheet and scales with it; Annotate Dot is a marker that stays the same size on screen no matter how far you zoom. Both are Rhino commands, gathered here because a report sheet is rarely finished without a few words on it.

Text

Text runs Rhino’s Text command and creates two-dimensional rich text: type the note, set its font, height, and style, and pick where it goes. Rich text can be formatted word by word, like in a word processor, so a single note can mix bold and regular text.

Use it for anything that belongs on the printed sheet — manufacturing notes, the finger size, a stone-setting instruction next to the head. The text blocks of a Report title block are ordinary text objects too: double-click any of them to edit.

For more information, please refer to the Rhino documentation.

Annotate Dot

Annotate Dot runs Rhino’s Dot command and draws an annotation dot in screen space: type the label, pick the location. Zooming or rotating the view never changes its size or orientation, and dots always draw in front of other objects, so they cannot hide behind the model.

That makes them the right tool for working notes — numbering stones while you discuss a design, flagging a prong that needs rework — rather than for the finished sheet.

For more information, please refer to the Rhino documentation.