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Annotation Suite
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Introduction
Frequently, creating and editing drawing geometry is the easiest part of creating a drawing.  Adding the drawing annotation, such as attributed blocks, dimensions, text, and mtext can be much more time consuming and tedious.  It doesn't have to be difficult to create and edit well-organized and attractive annotation.

Features
Twenty-nine separate utilities
Global launch & learning program (view dialog)
Customizable command names
Option shortcuts

Utilities	Attribute	Dimension	Mtext	Text
Add Text
Adds text to the beginning or end of text objects.
Align Annotation
Aligns the insertion points of text and/or mtext objects.
Annex
Creates text above or below existing text objects which match all the properties of the text object including color, layer, style, rotation angle, etc.
Annotate Object
Creates text above or below existing arcs, circles, lines, lwpolylines, and polylines even if they are nested within a block or xref.
Annotation Case
Changes the character case of objects to lowercase, mixed case, or uppercase.  Allows you to create exceptions that will always be converted to a particular case combination.  For instance, you may want the word AutoCAD to be displayed as shown here regardless of the case chosen.
Annotation Rotator
Rotates objects about their insertion points relative to their current rotation or to an absolute angle.
Annotation Space
Changes the line spacing of objects.  Automatically recognizes the line spacing of the font.
Box Annotation
Creates a rectangular polyline that encloses all of the selected objects individually or as a group.
Change Justification
Changes the justification of objects to any valid justification without moving the objects from their original location.
Change Precision
Changes the decimal precision of real numbers contained within objects.
Change Style
Changes the text style of objects to any defined style.  Handles fixed-height and zero-height text styles.
Collect Annotation
Creates a paragraph from selected objects.  Line spacing, justification, alignment, and convert to mtext options are available.
Compact Annotation
Removes all spaces and tabs from the beginning and end of the selected objects.
Copy+Increment Annotation
Copies objects to a new location and increments the specified alphanumeric characters contained within them.
Drop Word
Deletes the first or last "word" from an object.
Erase Empties
Eliminates objects that contain no characters.  These objects are not visible and therefore cannot be easily erased with standard AutoCAD commands.
Label Annotation
Labels objects with letters, numbers, or Roman numerals.
Mask Mtext
Masks objects.  Not to be confused with the Express Tool Textmask.
Math on Annotation
Performs mathematical calculations using numbers contained within objects.
Merge Annotation
Merges two objects into a single object, deleting one.
Modify Text Width
Modifies the width factor of objects.
Move Text to Object
Move the selected object to a standard location relative to an existing geometric object such as a line, automatically justifying and aligning it.
Multiple Text Editor
Edits a selection set of objects.
Paragraph Adjust
Changes the width of paragraphs of objects by performing automatic word-wrapping.  Provides many options for line spacing, paragraph spacing, etc.
Phrase Manager
Globally replaces all occurrences of user-defined phrases with the desired phrases.  Phrase lists are stored and can be applied to drawings in a single step.
Place Annotation in Box
Moves objects to the middle or an enclosed rectangular area or creates objects in the middle of an enclosed rectangular area.
Replace Annotation String
Changes the string contained within objects to match an entered string or the string contained within a selected object.
Switch Annotation
Switches the strings contained within two objects.
Text to Mtext
Converts text objects to individual mtext objects maintaining the justification and converting special characters such as %%C, %%P, and %%U.

Compatibility
AutoCAD 2008 + verticals
AutoCAD 2007 + verticals
AutoCAD 2006 + verticals
AutoCAD 2005 + verticals
AutoCAD 2004 + verticals
AutoCAD 2002 + verticals