Using text notes

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In this video, we'll use text notes.

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After completing this step, you'll be able to use text and add text note with the leader.

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In fusion 360, we want to carry on with our coupler for production drawing,

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at this point we're going to start to explore adding text to a detailed drawing.

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There are a few different things that we can do.

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We've got a text which creates a text note that is separate from all other geometry.

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We have the note option with a small lightning bolt icon.

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Now this automatically will create a text note with a leader but it can also be used for things like holes, threads, bend identifiers or leader notes.

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We also have the leader note which is pretty specific in the fact that its text with a leader.

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Then we have hole and thread note and bend note.

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So similar to how the dimension tool can encapsulate multiple types of dimensions.

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The note tool can encapsulate multiple types of notes but let's go ahead and get started with text.

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We're going to begin adding a text note and I'm gonna simply draw a box in the bottom left hand corner, left click for its second point.

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And then I'm going to add a note called tumble finish.

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To finish this I'll left click. And now we've got a tumble finished text note.

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This can be placed anywhere on the drawing, for example, if it's a specific note category that you need to have inside of your title block,

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you can have it there or you can add it to the title block information.

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We can also simply drag it anywhere that it needs to.

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If you have an area on your detailed drawings, four notes, then you can put it there.

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Let's take a look at using the leader note option.

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With the leader note option, what we're going to talk about is adding a note that points to a very specific selection.

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We're going to simply drag this out into the right and begin typing.

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In this case, we're going to put a note that says break edge

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When we have a break edge note, it simply means we want to remove the sharp corner from the design that might be left for milling.

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So again, tumble finish is adding a note and break edge is adding our leader note.

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And once again the note option with the lightning bolt will also act as a leader note if we're simply selecting the edge of a part.

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But if you select a hole that has threads or was created with the hole tool in fusion 360, it will also capture that whole information.

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At this point, let's make sure that we do save this drawing before moving on to the next step.