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Creating an annotation family

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Creating an annotation family

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- [Narrator] In this video, let's create our own custom, generic annotation symbol. In this case, what I want to do, is make a more stylized North arrow. So, let me start by looking at the North arrow that's already here in this file. So if I come over to this existing generic annotation and I highlight it, you can see that the category for this is actually Generic Annotations. Now the reason that's important is because if you go to the Annotate tab, it's actually the Symbol tool that we use to place Generic Annotations, so just kind of keep that in mind. There's no Generic Annotation command. When you want to place a generic annotation, you're actually using the Symbol tool. All right, so in this case though, we want to create a Generic Annotation, so it's not a symbol that we're creating. We have to make sure that we're choosing the Generic Annotation Family template. Little confusing, but if you keep that straight,…

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