Notes Management

VectorWorks Design Series products provide a full set of features for managing and creating complete and fully-referenced annotation of project files. These features can streamline the annotation process by providing a central location for storing, selecting, and placing frequently-repeated notes. Notes can be reused across files, either within a project, or across separate projects.

A callout is text with a leader line, displaying information about an item in the drawing. A keynote is a callout that references a note contained in a keynote legend. Finally, general notes contain text not associated with a particular item in the drawing.

A callout object is included with the VectorWorks Fundamentals program, but its capabilities are extended in the Design Series, allowing it to be used for keynotes in addition to ordinary notes. For more information on the Callout tool, see Inserting Callouts.

Placing callouts as keynotes also creates a keynote legend object. The keynote legend automatically numbers the notes, and ensures that multiple instances of the same note are assigned the same keynote number.

In addition to callouts, a general notes object places and automatically numbers general notes.

The callout, keynote legend, and general notes objects can be used with manually-entered text, or in conjunction with external databases which store and retrieve text. When a database is used, text is entered only once into the database, and then pulled from the database for notes in the drawing. After notes have been placed, if changes are made to the database or to the notes, the differences can be reconciled with the Reconcile Notes command.