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Annotations and measurements

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Annotations and measurements

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- Let's take a look at how we can add annotation and some measurements in Alias. So the annotate and measure commands create something called locators. We've already touched on locators. The downside of using locators is that when you press the l or delete locators, it will delete all of the locators. So if you have some annotations applied then you go ahead and you do some curvature analysis, when you're done with your curvature analysis and you press l, you're going to delete everything, even your annotations are going to go. So just bear that in mind when you're using this command. So let's go ahead. At the very top we're going to go to annotate, and let's go ahead and pick this piece of data. I'm going to put a locator right here. At the top I'm going to type some text in. So put in fender, return. So at this point I'm just going to go straight to control five, and let's take a look at this information. So it tells me that it's located on a mesh point. I can change the text…

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