Creating Annotation Templates

Creo View Installation and Configuration Guide > Creating Annotation Templates

This appendix describes how to create an Annotation Template XML document.

About Annotation Templates

An Annotation Template is a set of annotation properties and values that can be applied during an edit. Annotation templates make it easy to apply a standard annotation style across a design.

Use a text editor to create and edit annotation templates. Once imported, the annotation templates will then be available for use when editing annotations in Creo View.

Annotation templates can be used to define the following properties:

• Text content of a label

• Expanded text option of a label

• Font size of a label

• Color of any annotation

• Background color for a label or any shape

• Line width of a leader line or freehand

• Transparency of any shape

• Line style of a leader line, freehand, or polygon

• Lock-on-zoom property of a note

• Shape of a label

About the Annotation Template XML Document

The element <annotationtemplates> can contain a number of different templates.

The file may also contain a name attribute. Use the name attribute to distinguish templates from different files that have the same name.

The element <annotationtemplate> contains <template> tags. Each <template> tag defines a single annotation template.

The <template> tag contains the following information:

• An attribute name which defines the annotation template name

• A list of <property> tags that define template properties in the template:

◦ type

—Defines the type of property, for example line style or transparency.

◦ value—Sets the value of the property

◦ appliesto—Applies the template to certain annotation types

<type> Element

The <type> element defines type of property. Define the type of property by setting the <values> for one or more of the following:

Property Type	Values	Description
text	text	Text content for a note without attributes.
textexpanded	true, false	Expanded Text option
fontsize	real value	Font size in points
shape	circle, square, rectangle, hexagon, triangleup, triangledown, roundedrectangle	Shape of the note.
color	hexadecimal color value
backgroundcolor	hexadecimal color value
linewidth	any integer	The line widths selectable interactively corresponds to 1, 3, 5
linestyle	solid, dotdash, dotdotdash	One of the literal values shown, corresponding to the line styles available when editing interactively in Creo View.
fillstyle	none, transparent, opaque	One of the literal values shown, corresponding to the transparency values available when editing interactively in Creo View.
lockonzoom	true, false

<appliesto> Attribute

The attribute <appliesto> defines which types of annotation the property should be applied to. For example, use this attribute to define a different color for a note and a leader line separately. The value of the <appliesto> attribute is a comma-separated list of one or more of the following values:

• all

• note

• leaderline

• freehand

• rectangle

• ellipse

• polygon— Surface polygon in 3D and a 2D polygon

Annotation Template XML Document Example

Below is an example of an Annotation Template file. The file contains three individual templates: Critical Surface Polygon, Needs Review Note and Blue Ellipse.