The following list represents some changes that I would like to see made to text notes. The list is not in any order of preference or importance. I am posting this in the general forum to get some feedback before making a wishlist post. Feel free to agree, disagree or add on.
1. Underline, bold, italics & transparency should be instance parameters so that we don’t need four text types (or more if you use combinations) for each font size just to use these properties.
2. Underline, bold, & italics should be able to be assigned to portions of text within a text note. Sometimes just a word or phrase in a larger note needs to have one of these attributes.
3. There needs to be more advanced formatting options than just tabs. At a minimum we need paragraph indents and lists like this one where the lines following the first line can be set to be indented.
4. Text notes should be able to be aligned to model or detail features. The alignment point of the text should be user controllable and should be independent of the justification of the text itself.
5. Text should be able to be rotated to a specific angle. It seems to me that allowing the rotate command to control text instead of the current icon control should be sufficient.
6. When editing a text note, the active typing box should pop up to screen size so that you can see what you are typing. This allows for easy editing of numerous notes while zoomed out to extents. As it is now you have to zoom into each note as you edit so that you can read the text as you type.
7. There should be a keyboard escape from the dialog box instead of having to always mouse click outside of the box.
8. When adding leaders to existing notes, the end of the leader should appear within the borders of the current field of view. It is annoying to have to zoom out just to grab the shape handle of the arrow.
9. There need to be more options for where the leader line attaches itself to the body of the text. I don’t know if we need infinite attachment points via a shape handle or just more built-in snap points (perhaps every ¼ point of each side).
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10. (Added from Greg Cashen's post.) I would love to see an option whereby you can attach the arrow to the object it calls out. This way, if geometry changes in the model, annotations in the plans and elevations won't end up unattached to the model.
11. (Added from Scott Hopkins' post.) I would also like to add that the bounding box for text is too large. I am always selecting text when I don't mean to. Also when stretching the text bounding box it should be able to "highlight align" to other text bounding box edges so that if you need to change the width of a column of notes all of the edges and arrows will line up correctly. Right now the text bounding box still works by eyeball mode.[/list:u:a92b4df44e]
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Originally Posted by cogen
