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The annotation text and graphics do not become a part of your original ANSYS display; they are formed on what might be thought of as a 2-D overlay. So, if you transform your original display (by changing the scaling, focus, viewing angle, magnification, etc.), your carefully-constructed annotation usually will not line up with the changed underlying ANSYS image.
Instead of creating an annotation display by typing in commands directly, add all annotation using the functions under Utility Menu>PlotCtrls>Annotation. For every annotation function in the GUI, one or more underlying ANSYS command(s) is recorded on the log file which would reproduce the display if the log file were later submitted for batch input. The annotation commands that might appear in such a session log could include /ANNOT, /ANUM, /TLABEL, /LINE, /LARC, /LSYMBOL, /POLYGON, /PMORE, /PCIRCLE, /PWEDGE, /TSPEC, /PSPEC, and /LSPEC.
Text is the default entity for annotation. To choose another entity, press the Text button on the Text Annotation Dialog box and reset it to one of the following:
Figure 14-1 The Text Annotation dialog box
The fields and buttons presented in the Annotation dialog box change when you reset the annotation entity type. For example, if you reset the annotation entity to arcs, the dialog box shown in Figure 14-1 changes to display the options available for annotation arcs (arc color, solid or dashed lines, and arc width). No matter which annotation entity you choose, the Annotation dialog box always displays four action buttons:
Undo-Erases the last annotation entity created.
Refresh-Redisplays the annotation, which is useful after move and delete operations.
Close-Closes the Annotation dialog box.
Help-Displays online help for the dialog of the currently selected annotation entity.
Once you create annotations for model and results data, you can toggle display of them on or off by choosing Utility Menu>PlotCtrls>Annotation>Display Annotation and clicking the toggle button.