In this video, we'll learn how to use and customize notes and note schedules.
Notes. are text call-out markers that are referenced by a note schedule.
You might use notes in conjunction with text scenarios or use notes
exclusively. Notes can be placed in 2d plan, views,
elevation views, and even 3d views.
Notes placed in plan views can be visible in 3d views and vice
versa.
Notes placed in an elevation view are visible only from that specific view.
For this video I'll place notes on this wall of elevation.
The notes tool can be found under the text tool bar or from the
CAD text menu. When placing a note,
the note specification dialog will be displayed.
You can enter the notes text and the note type
you can change the call-out label size and shape.
A label macro will automatically increment the number for the notes.
Let me begin by putting in some text that I want to call out.
I'm going to go ahead and type in crown molding.
I'm going to assign this to the type of kitchen notes.
Notice there are several notes you can choose from,
and you can also build new note types.
If you're trying to customize and add additional notes,
I mentioned the label macro will automatically increment this.
This is the macro text. Of course, if you want to replace that, you can.
If you want to put text below the line,
you can insert text and then for the shape you can use
the schedule I'll place for the shape.
You can also uncheck that and directly control the shape right in
here. So the first note, let me go ahead and close this dialog.
You see the note up here and it's blank.
I must first place the note schedule for, it to populate.
Let's go ahead and place our schedule right in the elevation view.
So I'm going to come up underneath the tools down to schedules,
and I'm going to then choose the note schedule.
And I'm just going to place this off to the left.
You can see the crown molding note shows up with a number one over here,
and now when we go back and let's place another note,
I'll come over on the cook hood, enter in the text.
I'm going to use the same type of kitchen note.
You may find it easy to copy and paste notes. In this case,
if I grabbed the cook hood note,
use the copy operation control C paste it over on the
cabinet control V I can then open up that note,
come in and type over the top of it.
Once I've changed the text and close the dialog,
you can see the note number actually changes the label macros since the text
isn't identical will automatically update. If I make another copy of this note,
let me just use the copy function in the lower toolbar,
slide it over and leave that note.
It has the same rainwater glass note.
Let's his pull our schedule off to the side so we can take a look at it.
You can see that it's easy to copy and paste your notes.
Let me place one more note for the countertop edge.
I'm just going to come in here and type the text for the countertop edge.
Let's go ahead and zoom in.
There may be instances where you want to have a line and arrow
with the note down to the countertop.
You can find the note and arrow underneath the line tool.
And typically what I might do is just use line with arrow.
And then I right click from the note release my mouse
come down and then when I'm finished I'll left-click and that's how I can easily
add a line and arrow from that note call-out.
I'll press F six to fill the screen.
Note schedules can be reorganized. When you click on the schedule,
you can pull these notes down and resort them,
simply grab the number, pull it around and adjust it.
Also on your notes schedule. If I double clicked, open it up,
you can control the look of the schedule. I might come in here and rename it,
call it the kitchen notes.
And then there are available columns that you can add and remove.
You can simply click on these and add remove.
Currently I have the 2d symbol and the text for the note,
and then there are several other panels. You can change like the attributes.
If you want a border gridlines alignment, as well as line style,
the layer it's on and quite a few other options.
Oftentimes your notes are going to be sent out to the layout sheet.
And as you see the layout sheet that I have open here for this bath suite,
the notes in the lower right-hand corner can be positioned and managed
separate of the elevation views. In the project that we're working on,
I simply place the notes right next to the wall of elevation over off
to the left-hand side. When I go to send this out to the layout sheet,
maybe I'll send it out a half inch scale.
It's going to be more difficult to manage these notes,
especially if I want the scale to be different,
or depending on how I organize my layout sheet.
A preferred practice is to put your notes schedules in
a CAD detail, which is a separate clean workspace.
And then you can manage it and send it out to the layout independent of your
floor plan, your elevation view.
So what I'm going to do is delete the note schedule that we've created.
So I'm just going to press the delete key and remove this.
Then I'm going to come over and open up the project browser.
This is on the right-hand side of my screen.
And good practice is to put your note schedule
underneath the CAD detail. I'm going to click here and I'm going to right click.
I'm going to say new detail.
Then I'm going to give it a name and we'll just call it the kitchen
notes. When I close the dialog,
it opens up a new sheet inside of my plan file.
That is an empty workspace to place the note schedule.
It's the same way we did it in the elevation view, underneath tools, menu,
down to schedules. I'm going to come down and play cenote note,
schedule and zoom in. And here is your notes schedule. That's placed.
You may be using many different types of notes and in your plan
process,
let's go ahead and open up this note schedule by double clicking on the
general panel inside of your schedule. If you scroll down,
you're going to find a category for notes.
And currently I have the kitchen notes checked.
If you're using framing notes or construction notes, or maybe bath nodes,
you can easily put check marks in here or remove check marks to
include those specific notes.
These are tied to the dropdown note type when you're creating your notes.
All of your schedules,
such as this kitchen note are displayed in your project browser.
You can see the note detail, you get a preview of it,
and it's very easy to manage this and to send it out to your layout,
just like sending your elevation view out,
you can set it to a different scale than your elevation or your plan.
That wraps up this video on using notes and note schedules.