Notes, backgrounds, and generated tables

An annotation is free-standing text. With nothing selected, create one in Inspector, then set its text, size, background, and border.

The project annotation says to terminate the floor track behind the podium and leave one meter of cable slack inside the base so the podium can be moved for cleaning.

You can remove the background of the annotation by setting the background color's alpha to 0.

Backgrounds are visual grouping

A background can help break up a large page into smaller sections. It is rendered behind the rest of the drawing, including nodes and images.

An Equipment rack background groups the video encoder, PoE switch, video decoder, and audio processor without changing their connections.

Generated project tables

An annotation can also display a live table of page information, device views, or cables. The table follows changes to the project instead of keeping a pasted copy of its rows. See Generated project tables for the sources, frame sizing, and continuing a table across sheets.