View and Markup contains commands that allow you to add markups and measurements to your documents. Markups are text or graphical elements that you draw in the viewing window, such as:
points
lines
shapes
text
2-D images from files
The types of markups you can place depend on whether the active document is a 2-D document or 3-D document.
When you create the first markup object, a new markup group is added to the Markup tab. This group contains a collection of markup objects. You can right click on the top level markup group and click Create New Markup from the shortcut menu to create additional markup groups.
The Markup toolbar contains commands that allow you to place markups in your documents. You can use the Preferences dialog box to change markup colors, size, and styles. You can select markups and edit the markup, reposition it within the view, or delete it from the view.
You can use the Rubber Stamp command to place a rubber stamp markup in a 2-D document. Rubber stamp markups paste a prepared statement onto your markup layer. The prepared statement can be one of a series of such statements that you have created in a text file.
Each rubber stamp markup entry must have a number, but the numbers do not need to be sequential. Each entry must also have a name and a text statement. The number and name of the entry appears on a line that begins with a #; all lines that do not begin with a # appear as the text of the markup.
The file can include any number of notes, and you can use notes from any number of files on an image. You can set font size and type and include the current date and time in your rubber stamp text.
You can measure an angle, radius, or distance on your 2-D image in two ways:
Vector measurement, which measures the drawn vectors in the image.
Raster measurement, which measures the pixels on the image.
When you measure 2-D images, you can:
Measure angles or distances in your image with vector or raster measurement. You can measure from existing lines or from markups.
Calibrate your measurement device to define the distance between two points on your 2-D image. When you make additional measurements, the defined distance is used to determine the distance between any two points on your image.
Set measurement preferences to determine the units of measurement and the precision with which your measurements are displayed. You do not have to use the same unit of measurement in your preferences that you used to calibrate your measurement device. In other words, you can calibrate your device in one unit of measurement and measure in another.
There are four types of 3-D measurement that display different kinds of measurement information for 3-D models:
Single measurement displays information about a single entity.
Double measurement displays the minimum or maximum distance measurement between every two entities.
Chain measurement displays the double measurement between each entity and the previous entity.
Fan measurement displays the double measurement between each entity and the first entity.
You can display information for a point, vertex, edge, surface, or a part.
You can use 3-D measurement commands to:
Measure the distances between entities or sets of parts in your model. A box displays the distance between the entities.
Display or copy information about entities (points, vertices, edges, surfaces, and parts) on your model.
Locate, display, and measure from exact coordinates, midpoints, or intersection points.
Set measurement preferences to control the appearance and calculations of measurements, the appearance and content of measurement display labels, and the treatment of measurements when you save session files.
Manage measurement display labels that display the measurement information for your model.