Model vs. Annotation

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This video demonstrates how to place model and annotation elements in project views.

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It also explains the rules that govern their visibility.

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When you place a table component in the furniture plan view, it is also visible in the floor plan view.

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The model elements you add to the project are visible in all views of the project instantly.

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By contrast, when you use the Text Note tool to add a note to the table in the furniture plan view, the note does not appear in the floor plan view.

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The text is an annotation element and is visible only in the view in which you place it.

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Dimension strings and object tags are also annotation elements, so they are view specific.

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Just like annotation elements, detail elements such as lines and detail components are view specific.

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When you add detail elements to model geometry to enhance or clarify the view,

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they are visible only in a view in which you place them.

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As a final example, we will go to the annotation tab of the ribbon

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and add a CMU repeating detail component to the wall in the Foundation detail view.

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As you would expect, the CMU is not modeled.

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Instead, it is added as a view specific element to enhance the model geometry in the view.

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Additional detail elements, which are not modeled in 3D, are added to the Foundation detail view to further document the model.